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Montepulciano 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 limestone ridge, 70 kilometres southeast of Siena. Montepulciano is a major producer of food and drink. Renowned for its pork, cheese, "pici" pasta, lentils, and honey, it is known worldwide for its wine. Connoisseurs consider its Vino Nobile, which should not be confused with varietal wine merely made from the Montepulciano grape, among Italy's best. The main landmarks include:
•The Palazzo Comunale, designed by Michelozzo in the tradition of 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.
•The Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, 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.
•The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie (late 16th century). It has 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.
•The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Biagio is 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.
•Baroque church of Santa Lucia has an altarpiece by Luca Signorelli.
•The walls of the city date to around the 14th century.
Luca Signorelli (c1445/50-1523) - Holy Family with Zacharias, Elisabeth and the young John the Baptist, after 1512
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
- Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, dit Il Sodoma
Monte Oliveto Maggiore.
The Great Cloister 1426-1443.
Fresco cycle on the Life of Saint Benedict, by Sodoma (1505) and Luca Signorelli (1495).
Luca Signorelli (c1440/50-1523) - Man on a Ladder, 1504-5 (on loan from a private collection). Figure has just removed nails attaching Christ to the Cross, part of a larger altarpiece
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
- 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
- Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, dit Il Sodoma
Montepulciano, Italy
Montepulciano 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 limestone ridge, 70 kilometres southeast of Siena. Montepulciano is a major producer of food and drink. Renowned for its pork, cheese, "pici" pasta, lentils, and honey, it is known worldwide for its wine. Connoisseurs consider its Vino Nobile, which should not be confused with varietal wine merely made from the Montepulciano grape, among Italy's best. The main landmarks include:
•The Palazzo Comunale, designed by Michelozzo in the tradition of 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.
•The Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, 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.
•The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie (late 16th century). It has 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.
•The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Biagio is 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.
•Baroque church of Santa Lucia has an altarpiece by Luca Signorelli.
•The walls of the city date to around the 14th century.
Luca Signorelli (c1440/50-1523) - Triumph of Chastity: Love Disarmed and Bound, c1509. Fresco, detached and mounted on canvas
ca. 1505–7
Oil and gold on wood
20 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (51.4 x 47.6 cm)
Madonna and Child - Luca Signorelli
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue. New York, New York 10028 USA
This is the square in Florence with a human statue of Dante!
Via Santa Margherita in Florence off Via Dante Alighieri. We stopped here during our guided walking tour of the city. Occasionally he would say something off by heart if his book was turned to a certain page!
The core of the medieval Florence and more specifically the area between the church of "St. Martino "and" Piazza dei Donati ", was the 13th century location of the houses of the Alighieri family, as reported in many old documents. At the beginning of the 20th century, after several studies and researches, the Municipal Administration ordered the building of a house to celebrate the place of birth of Dante.
Today, the building is the seat of the House-Museum of Dante, which was reopened to the public on June 1st, 1994. The museum is arranged on three floors.
The first floor with a series of documents on the subject of the 13th century Florence and on the youth of Dante, on his christening in the "beautiful St. John" (the "Baptistery of St. Mary of the Flower"), on his public political and military struggles (the plastic model representing the Battle of Campaldino and the reproductions of the weapons used at the time are very interesting.
The second floor exhibits documents related to his painful exile of 1301, the year of his condemnation. After visiting several cities (Forli, Verona and Bologna), the poet decided to spend his last years at Ravenna where we would die (1321) in the home of Guido da Polenta.
The iconography and fortune of Dante over the centuries, from the 14th century to the present day. Reproductions includes works by artists like Giotto, Fra Angelico, Andrea del Castagno, Ghirlandaio, Luca Signorelli, Raphael and Michelangelo.
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By the end of 1508, Raphael had moved to Rome, where he lived for the rest of his life. He was invited by the new Pope Julius II, perhaps at the suggestion of his architect Donato Bramante, then engaged on St. Peter's, who came from just outside Urbino and was distantly related to Raphael. Unlike Michelangelo, who had been kept hanging around in Rome for several months after his first summons, Raphael was immediately commissioned by Julius to fresco what was intended to become the Pope's private library at the Vatican Palace. This was a much larger and more important commission than any he had received before; he had only painted one altarpiece in Florence itself. Several other artists and their teams of assistants were already at work on different rooms, many painting over recently completed paintings commissioned by Julius's loathed predecessor, Alexander VI, whose contributions, and arms, Julius was determined to efface from the palace. Michelangelo, meanwhile, had been commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
The Parnassus, 1511, Stanza della Segnatura
This first of the famous Stanze (Raphael Rooms) to be painted, now always known as the Stanza della Segnatura after its use in Vasari's time, was to make a stunning impact on Roman art, and remains generally regarded as his greatest masterpiece, containing The School of Athens, The Parnassus, and the Disputa. Raphael was then given further rooms to paint, displacing other artists including Perugino and Signorelli. He completed a sequence of three rooms, each with paintings on each wall and often the ceilings too, increasingly leaving the work of painting from his detailed drawings to the large and skilled workshop team he had acquired, who added a fourth room, probably only including some elements designed by Raphael, after his early death in 1520. The death of Julius in 1513 did not interrupt the work at all, as he was succeeded by Raphael's last Pope, the Medici Pope Leo X, with whom Raphael formed an even closer relationship, and who continued to commission him. Raphael's friend Cardinal Bibbiena was also one of Leo's old tutors, and a close friend and advisor.
Raphael was clearly influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling in the course of painting the room. Vasari said Bramante let him in secretly, and the scaffolding was taken down in 1511 from the first completed section. The reaction of other artists to the daunting force of Michelangelo was the dominating question in Italian art for the following few decades, and Raphael, who had already shown his gift for absorbing influences into his own personal style, rose to the challenge perhaps better than any other artist. One of the first and clearest instances was the portrait in The School of Athens of Michelangelo himself, as Heraclitus, which seems to draw clearly from the Sybils and ignudi of the Sistine ceiling. Other figures in that and later paintings in the room show the same influences, but as still cohesive with a development of Raphael's own style. Michelangelo accused Raphael of plagiarism and years after Raphael's death, complained in a letter that (quote) everything he knew about art he got from me (end quote) although other quotations show more generous reactions.
(Wikipedia)
Giorgio Vasari
Judith and Holofernes,: c.1554
Style: Mannerism (Late Renaissance)
Genre: religious painting
Oil on Panel
108 x 79.7 cm
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA
Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing. Vasari was born in Arezzo, Tuscany. Recommended at an early age by his cousin Luca Signorelli, he became a pupil of Guglielmo da Marsiglia, a skillful painter of stained glass. Sent to Florence at the age of sixteen by Cardinal Silvio Passerini, he joined the circle of Andrea del Sarto and his pupils Rosso Fiorentino and Jacopo Pontormo where his humanist education was encouraged. He was befriended by Michelangelo whose painting style would influence his own.
At Piazza della Repubblica in Cortona.
This was where our group went our own ways, and later met up again, before leaving the city.
Palazzo Comunale
The Palazzo Comunale was built simultaneously with the emergence of municipal autonomy in the twelfth century on the ruins of the Forum of the Roman city, at the crossroads between the Cardo and the Decumanus. Originally it consisted of a single large hall located at the end of today's staircase and intended for council meetings. Evident traces of this ancient building can be seen on the right-hand side that overlooks piazza Signorelli. In the sixteenth century it was enlarged on the left side beyond today's via Roma and the bell tower was raised above the arch that overlooks this street, uniting the two buildings. The large access staircase was also built. In later periods the building underwent considerable alterations and in 1896 it was restored in a completely arbitrary way by the architect Castellucci, the same one to whom Cortona owes the current facade of the church of Santa Margherita. On the side facing Piazza Signorelli there is a column erected in 1508 bearing the Florentine lion called the Marzocco, today almost illegible due to the deterioration of the pietra serena. In the Sala del Consiglio, which can be accessed from the staircase near the aforementioned column, there is a fireplace, formerly in Palazzo Sernini in Piazza Alfieri, carved in stone, the work of G. B. Infregliati called Cristofanello (16th century).
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
From the museum label: Jesus was circumcised according to Jewish tradition. Here, the high priest prepares to perform the act while Mary, Joseph and other figures look on. The circular reliefs to either side of the arch represent a prophet and a sibyl who foretold Christ's coming. This altarpiece was made for the oratory of the company of the Holy Name of Jesus in Volterra, Tuscany.
This is the square in Florence with a human statue of Dante!
Via Santa Margherita in Florence off Via Dante Alighieri. We stopped here during our guided walking tour of the city. Occasionally he would say something off by heart if his book was turned to a certain page!
The core of the medieval Florence and more specifically the area between the church of "St. Martino "and" Piazza dei Donati ", was the 13th century location of the houses of the Alighieri family, as reported in many old documents. At the beginning of the 20th century, after several studies and researches, the Municipal Administration ordered the building of a house to celebrate the place of birth of Dante.
Today, the building is the seat of the House-Museum of Dante, which was reopened to the public on June 1st, 1994. The museum is arranged on three floors.
The first floor with a series of documents on the subject of the 13th century Florence and on the youth of Dante, on his christening in the "beautiful St. John" (the "Baptistery of St. Mary of the Flower"), on his public political and military struggles (the plastic model representing the Battle of Campaldino and the reproductions of the weapons used at the time are very interesting.
The second floor exhibits documents related to his painful exile of 1301, the year of his condemnation. After visiting several cities (Forli, Verona and Bologna), the poet decided to spend his last years at Ravenna where we would die (1321) in the home of Guido da Polenta.
The iconography and fortune of Dante over the centuries, from the 14th century to the present day. Reproductions includes works by artists like Giotto, Fra Angelico, Andrea del Castagno, Ghirlandaio, Luca Signorelli, Raphael and Michelangelo.
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
- pescheria (1533)
This is the square in Florence with a human statue of Dante!
Via Santa Margherita in Florence off Via Dante Alighieri. We stopped here during our guided walking tour of the city. Occasionally he would say something off by heart if his book was turned to a certain page!
The core of the medieval Florence and more specifically the area between the church of "St. Martino "and" Piazza dei Donati ", was the 13th century location of the houses of the Alighieri family, as reported in many old documents. At the beginning of the 20th century, after several studies and researches, the Municipal Administration ordered the building of a house to celebrate the place of birth of Dante.
Today, the building is the seat of the House-Museum of Dante, which was reopened to the public on June 1st, 1994. The museum is arranged on three floors.
The first floor with a series of documents on the subject of the 13th century Florence and on the youth of Dante, on his christening in the "beautiful St. John" (the "Baptistery of St. Mary of the Flower"), on his public political and military struggles (the plastic model representing the Battle of Campaldino and the reproductions of the weapons used at the time are very interesting.
The second floor exhibits documents related to his painful exile of 1301, the year of his condemnation. After visiting several cities (Forli, Verona and Bologna), the poet decided to spend his last years at Ravenna where we would die (1321) in the home of Guido da Polenta.
The iconography and fortune of Dante over the centuries, from the 14th century to the present day. Reproductions includes works by artists like Giotto, Fra Angelico, Andrea del Castagno, Ghirlandaio, Luca Signorelli, Raphael and Michelangelo.
plaque - Dante
Photographed on: February 13 2018
Place: Latina Italy
Total Exposure: 3 Hours
Camera: Canon EOS 750D
Telescope: ES ED102 CF
Author: Vittorio 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
- 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
- Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, dit Il Sodoma