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D'Antonio was born in a peasant community in the mountain village of Bolognola between 1415 and 1420. [1] His father was known as Antonio di Domenico "the madman". [1] The first records of Giovanni Angelo d'Antonio date from 1443, after he had just made a trip to Florence that included a meeting with Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici. [1]
Monteverde was born in Bistagno, Italy and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.He later became a professor there. [1] Among his students were Yulia Brazol, Lola Mora and Victor de Pol, who both developed significant public work in Buenos Aires.
The Macchina di Santa Rosa is a 30-metre-high (98 ft) machine built to honor Rose of Viterbo, the patron saint of Viterbo, Italy.Every 3rd of September, a hundred men called "Facchini di Santa Rosa" ('Saint Rose's porters') carry the contraption—weighing about 11,000 pounds (5,000 kg)—and parade it through the streets and squares of Viterbo's medieval town centre, amid festive crowds of ...
The Madonna of the Rose (Madonna della rosa) is a 1518-1520 painting, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. [1] Its attribution as by Raphael is uncertain, and the involvement of Giulio Romano cannot be excluded. The rose and the lower portion were added at a later date by an unknown artist.
The Madonna of the Rose (Italian: Madonna della Rosa) is a 2.2 metre high marble sculpture of the Madonna and Child enthroned, with the Child trying to take a bunch of rosa canina from his mother's hand. [1] It forms part of a cycle of fourteen sculptures of the patron saints of the guilds of Florence on the external niches of the Orsanmichele ...
The game of astronomical tables, from Libro de los juegos. The Libro de los juegos (Spanish: "Book of games"), or Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas ("Book of chess, dice and tables", in Old Spanish), was a Spanish treatise of chess which synthesized the information from other Arabic works on this same topic, dice and tables (backgammon forebears) games, [1] commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile ...
The Company of the Rose (Compagnia della Rosa) was a company of mercenary soldiers which operated in northern Italy in the 14th and 15th centuries.. It was founded in Bologna, Italy, in August 1398 by Giovanni da Buscareto and Bartolomeo Gonzaga.
The game's Lead Game Designer was Bostjan Troha. [2] Arxel Tribe invested $2m to finance the project, though company founder Guillaume de Fondaumière commented that developers in the United States might pay twice that; this meant they had to sell 500,000 to 2 million copies to break even.