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Short time after the Domus Aurea had been discovered in Rome, starting the Renaissance fascination with grottesca style.
Oli sobre fusta. 88,5 x 56 cm. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton. y1929-271. Obra no exposada.
Model: Christina Signorelli, MM# 1155959. Styling by me. (c) 2011 Sally Clark Sheola.
Shot in Montclair, NJ. Click on picture to view large on black.
Memory work has an ethical as well as an historical dimension. I contributed the entry entitled memory work to Wikipedia. The catalyst for this layered image was Freud's influential paper (1901 [1914]) entitled Forgetting of Proper Names in Psychopathology of Everyday Life. In it Freud examined the psychological process of forgetting the name of the artist who painted the Orvieto ceiling when his conscious thinking process was abruptly interrupted by memories of the recent suicide of one of his patients who had an incurable sexual disorder. He forget Signorelli's proper name during this conversation with a stranger while traveling in Herzegovina. They had been discussing the Turks in Bosnia and Herzegovina when Freud's thoughts turned to contemporary [racist] beliefs surrounding the sexual moeurs of Turks who allegedly valued sexual pleasure over life itself. From there Freud thought of Death and Sexuality. As one theme interrupted and replaced the other, he associated the series Signorelli. Botticelli, Boltraffio, Trafoi and could not recollect the proper name.
This is significant to me as it reveals unchallenged western prejudices about the East at the turn of the century.
Layers include a .jpg of Renaissance artist Luca Signorelli's (1445 - 1523) masterpiece, the massive frescoes of the Last Judgment (1499-1503) in Orvieto Cathedral. The copyright on his work has expired since he passed away more than 70 years ago.
There is a topographical map of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a small iinsert of Freud's museum which is itself th subject of controversy as rrevealed in Derrida's book Archives Fever (1996). The uppermost layer is the diagram from the Freud's article explaining how he made a Freudian slip.
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See also Forgetting 2.0" It isn’t the willful forgetting that interests me, as much as the unconscious forgetting of those names, things, places, dates, events, reasons and consequences that are dissonant with a certain way of seeing and existing in the world. The act of choosing to forget is a form of remembering . . . a gesture of forgiveness, healing, detachment, withdrawal, cowardice or mere convenience.
Memory work entails an ethical act of revisiting the past to avoid repeating errors in the future, to illuminate unchallenged assumptions that contributed to distorted histories.
The Great Flood of the virtual archives has inundated users with a tsunami of words. I am attempting to use emerging technical tools of the semantic web to make it easier for other users at all levels to hyperlink names, things, places, dates, events, reasons and consequences to reliable and/or frequently cited sources in subject areas where I have been an active teacher, learner and researcher.
These compilations are found in one of the main search engines along with other posts and articles proposing an argument from the opposite end of the ideological spectrum.
Abbazia territoriale di Monte Oliveto Maggiore (SI), fondée en 1313 par San Bernardo Tolomei - congrégation Bénédictine - dans le cloître fresques de Luca Signorelli et du Sodome représentant des scènes de la vie de Saint Benoît- dans l'église et la bibliothèque, marqueteries de Fra Giovanni da Verona
- San Benedetto (2005)
An afternoon visit in Cortona, Tuscany, Italy (over the border from Umbria).
Cortona is a town and comune in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy. It is the main cultural and artistic centre of the Val di Chiana after Arezzo.
Cortona is derived from Latin Cortōna, and from Etruscan (curtun). This may be related to Indo-European *ghortos meaning "enclosed place" and consequently walled city like Latin hortus, German Garten, Italian orto, English yard, and Slavic grad. The name may also be linked to the Phrygian town of Gordium in Anatolia, although the founding myth for the latter is that it was named after founder, King Gordias. However, the Etruscan language is probably a pre-Indo-European language, and therefore if it was named by the Etruscans, an Indo-European etymology is uncertain. The Umbrian language, by contrast, is an Italic language, so if it was named by them, a link to Indo-European roots would be more likely.
View of Santa Maria delle Grazie al Calcinaio below, also saw it from the coach.
Seen from Piazza Garibaldi.
The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie al Calcinaio is a Catholic place of worship located in Calcinaio in Cortona, in the province of Arezzo.
According to Catholic believers, on Easter Sunday 1484 , an image of the Madonna and Child , painted on the wall of a tub used for tanning leather and known as the liming plant for the quicklime used for this purpose, began to work miracles. That image venerated as sacred is visible today in the high altar , most likely positioned on the site of the ancient tabernacle .
Following the growth of devotion of the faithful which also took the form of constant almsgiving, the art of the Calzolari, owner of the tanning, decided to erect a "sacred temple", in a place that posed uncommon difficulties for the construction, due both to the steep position of the land than in the presence of a stream. These and other problems were solved by Francesco di Giorgio Martini , the architect chosen by Luca Signorelli on behalf of the Guild of Calzolari.
Martini, one of the greatest architects of the Renaissance , accepted the assignment and drew up the project already in 1484 , shortly after having designed the church of San Bernardino in Urbino . The works began in 1485 and already at the end of the first quarter of the sixteenth century the church had reached its final appearance, at least on the outside. Thus it appears to us in fact in a fresco by Papacello in the Palazzone Passerini of Cortona datable to around 1525 , where the dome designed by the Florentine architect can also be seen raised Pietro di Domenico di Norbo and made from the drum between 1509 and 1514 .
The last interventions proceeded more slowly, so much so that the main portal was finished in 1543 , based on a project by Bernardino Covatti , and the execution of the floor dates back to 1549 (the current one is the result of a recent renovation).
The church was initially ( 1487 ) entrusted to the care of the Scopetini family, from whom it was taken in 1653 to aggregate it to the Bishop's Seminary, which was reopened in the premises of the suppressed convent adjacent to the church. Once the Seminary was closed ( 1674 ), after a period of abandonment it was restored and rearranged by the Piarists who reopened it for worship in 1730 . After the Piarists moved to the city ( 1777 ), the complex was returned to the Seminary, but it was too big a burden for the institute's finances. So in 1786 the title of parish of San Biagio a Salcotto was transferred to the church.
Papst Gregor I. der Große richtete 575 in seinem Elternhaus auf dem Celio ein Oratorium ein, über dem im Mittelalter eine Kirche entstand, die dem inzwischen heiliggesprochenen Papst geweihte wurde. Die Anfang des 17. Jh. neu erbaute Fassade des Atriums, ein Hauptwerk von Giovanni Battista Soria, wurde von Kardinal Scipione Borghese finanziert. Der Innenraum wurde Anfang des 18. Jh. von Francesco Ferrari im Barockstil neu gestaltet.
In einer Seitenkapelle über dem Altar Gregors des Großen ein Gemälde des Heiligen aus der Schule Signorellis.
Abbazia territoriale di Monte Oliveto Maggiore (SI), fondée en 1313 par San Bernardo Tolomei - congrégation Bénédictine - dans le cloître fresques de Luca Signorelli et du Sodome représentant des scènes de la vie de Saint Benoît- dans l'église et la bibliothèque, marqueteries de Fra Giovanni da Verona
- Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, dit Il Sodoma
These are made to the same scale as the imps shown a little further on; the figures would be about 15 cm tall if they were standing erect. The body was made for another reason, then it occurred to me that it bore some resemblance to one of Signorelli's flying devils at Orvieto. The wings, also modelled on the frescoes, are made separately then glued on. The original clay models for these figures would be about 40 cm tall, if standing erect, so these reproductions are quite detailed.
Poor girl arrived after a month long travel from Germany with two broken off fingers. Otherwise she is fabulous. She needs a makeover. Looking a bit pasty.
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Abbazia territoriale di Monte Oliveto Maggiore (SI), fondée en 1313 par San Bernardo Tolomei - congrégation Bénédictine - dans le cloître fresques de Luca Signorelli et du Sodome représentant des scènes de la vie de Saint Benoît- dans l'église et la bibliothèque, marqueteries de Fra Giovanni da Verona
- Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, dit Il Sodoma
Abbazia territoriale di Monte Oliveto Maggiore (SI), fondée en 1313 par San Bernardo Tolomei - congrégation Bénédictine - dans le cloître fresques de Luca Signorelli et du Sodome représentant des scènes de la vie de Saint Benoît- dans l'église et la bibliothèque, marqueteries de Fra Giovanni da Verona
- niches du pont-levis : San Benedetto - Madonna col Bambino en terre-cuite
Poor girl arrived after a month long travel from Germany with two broken off fingers. Otherwise she is fabulous. She needs a makeover. Looking a bit pasty.
Below the Resurrection of Bodies fresco, at ground level, is a small side chapel; the Cappellina dei Corpi Santi. Inside is a 'Pieta' with Jesus and the two Marys.
Duomo Orvieto, March 2017
Abbazia territoriale di Monte Oliveto Maggiore (SI), fondée en 1313 par San Bernardo Tolomei - congrégation Bénédictine - dans le cloître fresques de Luca Signorelli et du Sodome représentant des scènes de la vie de Saint Benoît- dans l'église et la bibliothèque, marqueteries de Fra Giovanni da Verona
- Luca Signorelli
Abbazia territoriale di Monte Oliveto Maggiore (SI), fondée en 1313 par San Bernardo Tolomei - congrégation Bénédictine - dans le cloître fresques de Luca Signorelli et du Sodome représentant des scènes de la vie de Saint Benoît- dans l'église et la bibliothèque, marqueteries de Fra Giovanni da Verona - niches du pont-levis : San Benedetto - Madonna col Bambino en terre-cuite
The abbey was founded in 1313 and it became a wealthy abbey. It has a cloister with frescos by Luca Signorelli and Il Sodoma.
Second brunch course at Signorelli...
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Abbazia territoriale di Monte Oliveto Maggiore (SI), fondée en 1313 par San Bernardo Tolomei - congrégation Bénédictine - dans le cloître fresques de Luca Signorelli et du Sodome représentant des scènes de la vie de Saint Benoît- dans l'église et la bibliothèque, marqueteries de Fra Giovanni da Verona
- Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, dit Il Sodoma
Luca Signorelli -
Sermon and Deeds of the Antichrist, detail [1499-1502]
Orvieto, Cappella di San Brizio
Abbazia territoriale di Monte Oliveto Maggiore (SI), fondée en 1313 par San Bernardo Tolomei - congrégation Bénédictine - dans le cloître fresques de Luca Signorelli et du Sodome représentant des scènes de la vie de Saint Benoît- dans l'église et la bibliothèque, marqueteries de Fra Giovanni da Verona
Abbazia territoriale di Monte Oliveto Maggiore (SI), fondée en 1313 par San Bernardo Tolomei - congrégation Bénédictine - dans le cloître fresques de Luca Signorelli et du Sodome représentant des scènes de la vie de Saint Benoît- dans l'église et la bibliothèque, marqueteries de Fra Giovanni da Verona
- Luca Signorelli
Orvieto to nie tylko Il Duomo, zapierające dech pejzaże, kamienne wąwozy ulic czy studnia św. Patryka. Orvieto - to wino, którego historia sięga czasów etruskich, i które w sposób oczywisty splata się, by nie powiedzieć: zlewa z historią sztuki. Luca Signorelli, wybitny malarz quattrocenta, którego freski z kaplicy San Brizio w orvietańskiej katedrze zainspirowały samego Michała Anioła, miał zapewnione w kontrakcie na wykonanie fresków 1000 litrów tego wina rocznie. Co daje dziennie... Można przyjąć, że owe freski w San Brizio nie powstałyby, gdyby nie ów szlachetny trunek, a Michał Anioł zupełnie inaczej malowałby swój Sąd Ostateczny. Oczywiście malowanie sufitów na rauszu jest dość ryzykowne. Signorelli bowiem zmarł w 1523 roku, kiedy to spadł z rusztowania, malując freski w pałacu kardynała Passeriniego, nieopodal Cortony. Z czego można wyciągnąć wniosek, że wino przy pracy polecane jest raczej malarzom sztalugowym czy fotografom. Być może jednak popijał już wówczas inne wino, nie Orvieto, i to było przyczyną jego upadku? Kto to może wiedzieć po tylu latach? Historia pełna jest tajemnic, zatopionych na dnie niejednej szklaneczki. Tak czy owak, przywieźliśmy z Orvieto do Cortony (w Cortonie urodził się Signorelli) dwie butelki tamtejszego specjału i piliśmy je na naszym balkonie, a jakiś odwieczny artysta malował w tym czasie zachód słońca nad doliną Chiana. Ktoś przecież pić musi, by malować mógł ktoś…
Nz. Orvieto Classico plus Est!Est!!Est!!! oraz balkon.
Abbazia territoriale di Monte Oliveto Maggiore (SI), fondée en 1313 par San Bernardo Tolomei - congrégation Bénédictine - dans le cloître fresques de Luca Signorelli et du Sodome représentant des scènes de la vie de Saint Benoît- dans l'église et la bibliothèque, marqueteries de Fra Giovanni da Verona
- Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, dit Il Sodoma
the amazing ceiling frescoes of Luca Signorelli, Orvieto, Cathedral
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"Court of Heaven" vaults, San Brizio chapel.
Despite the Devil and other fear-mongering mayhem, we can greatly admire the skilled leap-forward in spatial reality depicted by Signorelli. It's said that Michelangelo spent four years studying these before painting the Cistine chapel in Rome. Similarities would confirm.
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Italien / Toskana - Montepulciano
Piazza Grande - Palazzo Comunale
Montepulciano (Italian: [ˌmontepulˈtʃaːno]) is a medieval and Renaissance hill town and comune in the Italian province of Siena in southern Tuscany. It sits high on a 605-metre (1,985 ft) limestone ridge, 13 kilometres (8 mi) east of Pienza, 70 kilometres (43 mi) southeast of Siena, 124 kilometres (77 mi) southeast of Florence, and 186 kilometres (116 mi) north of Rome by car.
Montepulciano is a wine-producing region. The Vino Nobile di Montepulciano has Denominazione di origine controllata e garantita status and is, with the Brunello di Montalcino and Chianti Classico, one of the principal red wines of Tuscany. The Rosso di Montepulciano and Vin Santo di Montepulciano have Denominazione di origine controllata status.
History
According to legend, it was founded by the Etruscan King Lars Porsena of Clusium (modern Chiusi). Recent findings prove that a settlement was in existence in the 4th-3rd centuries BC. In Roman times it was the seat of a garrison guarding the main roads of the area.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it developed as a religious center under the Lombards. In the 12th century it was repeatedly attacked by the Republic of Siena, which the Poliziani faced with the help of the Perugia and Orvieto, and sometimes Florence, communes. The 14th century was characterized by constant struggles between the local noble families, until the Del Pecora family became rulers of the town. From 1390, Montepulciano was a loyal ally (and later possession) of Florence and, until the mid-16th century, lived a period of splendour with architects such as Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, Baldassarre Peruzzi, Ippolito Scalza and others, building luxurious residences and other edifices here. In 1559, when Siena was conquered by Florence and Montepulciano lost its strategic role, its importance declined.
After the unification of Italy and the drying of the Val di Chiana, the town remained the most important agricultural centre in the area, while the industrial activities moved mostly next to Chiusi, which was nearer to the railroad being built in that period.
A competitive "barrel race through the city" called the Bravio delle botti has been held on the last Sunday of August since the 14th Century.
Main sights
Since the Second World War, tourism has been a significant aspect in the economy of the urban part of the commune. Many of the streets are designated as car-free. Most of the shops and restaurants are on the main street, which stretches from Porta Al Prato to Piazza Grande[6] for 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi).
The main landmarks include:
Palazzo Comunale: city hall designed by Michelozzo recalling the Palazzo della Signoria (Palazzo Vecchio) of Florence.
Palazzo Tarugi, attributed to Antonio da Sangallo the Elder or Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola. It is entirely in travertine, with a portico which was once open to the public.
Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral, or the Duomo of Montepulciano, constructed between 1594 and 1680, includes a masterpiece from the Sienese School, a massive Assumption of the Virgin triptych painted by Taddeo di Bartolo in 1401.
Santa Maria delle Grazie: late 16th-century) church with a simple Mannerist façade with a three-arcade portico. The interior has a single nave, and houses a precious terracotta altar by Andrea della Robbia.
Madonna di San Biagio Sanctuary: church, located on the road to Chianciano outside the city, it is a typical 16th century Tuscan edifice, designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Elder on a pre-existing Pieve, between 1518 and 1545. It has a circular (central) plan with a large dome over a terrace and a squared tambour. The exterior, with two bell towers, is built in white travertine.
Santa Lucia: Baroque church with altarpiece by Luca Signorelli.
Museo Civico di Montepulciano: located in the Palazzo Neri Orselli, displaying a collection of archeologic items, paintings, and terracotta works by the Della Robbia family.
(Wikipedia)
Montepulciano ist eine Kleinstadt mit 13.691 Einwohnern (Stand 31. Dezember 2019) in der italienischen Region Toskana und gehört zur Provinz Siena.
Geografie
Montepulciano liegt ca. 45 km südöstlich der Provinzhauptstadt Siena und ca. 86 km südöstlich der Regionalhauptstadt Florenz zwischen dem Val di Chiana und dem Val d’Orcia. Lage und Bau der Stadt sind pittoresk. Die Stadt liegt auf der Kuppe eines rund 600 m hohen Hügels und ist von einer mittelalterlichen Stadtmauer umgeben.
Zu den Ortsteilen gehören Abbadia, Acquaviva, Gracciano, Montepulciano Stazione, Sant’Albino und Valiano.
Die Nachbargemeinden sind Castiglione del Lago (PG), Chianciano Terme, Chiusi, Cortona (AR), Pienza und Torrita di Siena.
Geschichte
Die Geschichte Montepulcianos lässt sich bis ins Jahr 715 v. Chr. zurückverfolgen, also bis mitten in die Etruskerzeit. Der Ort unterlag bis 1202 dem Schutz Sienas, erklärte sich dann für Florenz und wechselte anschließend noch mehrfach die Herrschaft, bis er Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts endgültig florentinisch wurde. 1561 wurde die Stadt Bischofssitz.
Montepulciano ist der Geburtsort des Humanisten und Poeten Angelo Ambrogini (1454–1494), der als Poliziano bekannt wurde und als Hauslehrer und Freund von Lorenzo il Magnifico den Zeitgeist der Renaissance mitprägte. Ein weiterer Sohn der Stadt ist Kardinal Bellarmino (1542–1621).
Im Zweiten Weltkrieg hatte die deutsche Wehrmacht als Vergeltung von Partisanenangriffen bereits die Zerstörung der historischen Altstadt angeordnet. Dies konnte vom Grafen Origo und seiner Frau, der Schriftstellerin Iris Origo („Toskanisches Tagebuch“), in letzter Minute verhindert werden. Gesprengt wurde lediglich das Osttor „Porta al Prato“.
Am 7. Juni 2016 vereinbarten Vertreter des Partito Democratico aus Montepulciano und Torrita di Siena, die in ihren Gemeinden eine klare Mehrheit haben, eine Fusion beider Gemeinden in die Wege zu leiten. Dies wurde im November 2018 in einem Referendum abgelehnt.
Sehenswürdigkeiten
Die meisten der Gebäude der Altstadt stammen aus der Zeit der Renaissance. Älter sind die Burg, der Palazzo Pubblico aus dem 14. Jahrhundert und das Portal der Kirche Santa Maria (13. Jahrhundert). Es gibt eine Reihe von schönen Privathäusern, von denen einige von Antonio da Sangallo dem Älteren (1455–1534) und Baldassare Peruzzi (1481–1536), andere von Vignola (1507–1573) erbaut wurden.
Die Kirche Madonna di San Biagio – wahrscheinlich das Meisterwerk Sangallos – wurde 1518 bis 1537 gebaut.
Die Kathedrale von Bartolomeo Ammanati (1570), verändert von Ippolito Scalza, und vollendet 1680 (mit Ausnahme der Fassade, die immer noch unvollendet ist) beherbergt einen großen Altar von Taddeo di Bartolo von Siena, und die Fragmente eines imposanten Monuments, das 1427–1436 von dem Florentiner Architekten Michelozzo zu Ehren von Bartolomeo Aragazzi, dem Sekretär Papst Martins V., errichtet wurde, und das im 18. Jahrhundert abgerissen wurde. Die Fassade der Kirche Sant’Agostino ist wahrscheinlich ebenso Michelozzos Werk.
Sehenswert ist auch das aufwendig restaurierte Museo comunale mit der Gemäldesammlung Crociani. Unten im Val di Chiana befindet sich am Lago di Montepulciano ein Naturkundemuseum, das an die Jahrhunderte erinnert, in denen das Tal ein riesiger See und Sumpf war.
Tourismus
Regelmäßige Veranstaltungen
Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte: das Musikfestival, dessen Initiator 1976 der deutsche Komponist Hans Werner Henze war, findet jährlich von Ende Juli bis Anfang August statt.
Europäische Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst: Meisterkurse der Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in Zusammenarbeit mit der Europäischen Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst finden jährlich mit ihren wöchentlichen Abschlusskonzerten im Palazzo Ricci statt.
Bruscello: ist ein Bauerntheater mit Musik; es findet jedes Jahr zu Ferragosto (am 15. August) statt.
Bravio delle Botti: ein Wettkampf der acht Stadtteile, bei dem Weinfässer den Berg hoch gerollt werden müssen; er findet jedes Jahr am letzten Sonntag im August statt
Tourismus
Neben Weinkennern kommen auch viele Musikliebhaber nach Montepulciano (siehe Abschnitt Regelmäßige Veranstaltungen).
In den letzten Jahren war Montepulciano wiederholt Schauplatz preisgekrönter Spielfilme wie „Der englische Patient“, „Heaven“ oder „Ein Sommernachtstraum“ und „New Moon – Bis(s) zur Mittagsstunde“ mit Robert Pattinson und Kristen Stewart.
Weinbau
Böden, Lagen und Klima der Gegend begünstigen den Weinbau, durch den der Ort bekannt geworden ist. Der Rotwein hat einen „noblen“ Namen: Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, dessen Name aber mit dem Wein Montepulciano d’Abruzzo aus den Marken und Abruzzen verwechselt werden könnte. Die Winzer von Montepulciano machen den Unterschied in den Rebsorten, in der Haltbarkeit und in der Qualität und orientieren sich dabei an den toskanischen Nachbarn aus Montalcino. Der einfachere Wein aus Montepulciano wird Rosso di Montepulciano genannt.
(Wikipedia)
Abbazia territoriale di Monte Oliveto Maggiore (SI), fondée en 1313 par San Bernardo Tolomei - congrégation Bénédictine - dans le cloître fresques de Luca Signorelli et du Sodome représentant des scènes de la vie de Saint Benoît- dans l'église et la bibliothèque, marqueteries de Fra Giovanni da Verona
- Chiesa e statua di San Benedetto (2005)