Tag: Saint Agatha of Sicily
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04 Works, Today, February 5th, is Saint Agatha of Sicily’s Day, With Footnotes – 36
Sebastiano del Piombo (1485 – 21 June 1547) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerist periods famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of the Venetian school in which he was trained with the monumental forms of the Roman school. He belongs both to the painting…
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 5th, is Saint Agatha of Sicily’s Day, With Footnotes – 36
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 – 1770. Born into a wealthy and noble family in Venice, Giambattista Tiepolo was recognized by contemporaries throughout Europe as the greatest painter of large-scale decorative frescoes in the 1700s. He was admired for having brought fresco painting to new heights of technical virtuosity, illumination, and dramatic effect. Tiepolo possessed an imagination…
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