Trumpet Tours & A trip to Orvieto
A brisk ride along some italian twisties, taking in some interesting Umbrian countryside scenery with a few biker mates, followed by a slower meander through some very narrow Orvietan back streets.
Orvieto | Il pozzo di San Patrizio | Saint Patrick well
Gianluca Foresi, attore e autore, legge una riduzione del racconto Il pozzo di San Patrizio dello scrittore Tommaso Landolfi.
Gianluca Foresi, author and actor, reads the story Il pozzo di San Patrizio by the Italian writer Tommaso Landolfi
Orvieto. Un punto di vista eccentrico
Rosa Matteucci, scrittrice, racconta l'Orvieto quotidiana e l'Orvieto monumentale dal suo particolare punto di vista.
Church of Sant'Andrea, Orvieto Umbria ENG - Orvietoviva.com
This wonderful church has ancient origins. It is located where once stood the city center of the Etruscan city Velzna. Its underground rooms reveal several layers historically periods, starting from around 1000 BC with the Villanovian age, Etruscan roads, furnaces and wells, and mosaic floors from an early Christian church. The original construction of the church dates back to 1013, though it has had a lot restoration and interventions since then. What we see today is the result of the last renovation in 1926, under the supervision of Gustavo Giovannoni. His work took care of the façade, by adding reliefs in the lunette over the portal, the rose window, and the bell tower. The bell tower was built in a similar fashion to the twelve-sided tower of the Abbey of Saints Severio and Martirio. This abbey called La Badia by the Orvietans - is located just out of town.
Borgonaccio - Luxury farmhouses in Umbria - CPGE1459
Borgonaccio - cod.cpge001459 -
ENG - Beautiful farmhouse to be restored for a surface of about 350 square meter on
Two levels, located in a really panoramic position toward the Orvietan hills. The farmhouse to be restored is sold out with about3,5 hectares of land.
ITA - Bellissimo casale da ristrutturare della superficie di circa 350 mq. su due livelli, ubicato in posizione estremamente panoramica sulle colline Orvietane. Il casale da ristrutturare viene ceduto con circa 3,5 ha. di terreno.
Info: +39.0578.59050 - info@greatestate.it
Luca Signorelli: A collection of 117 Paintings (HD) [High Renaissance]
Luca Signorelli: A collection of 117 Paintings (HD) [High Renaissance]
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Luca d'Egidio di Ventura
- Born: c.1445; Cortona, Italy
- Died: 16 October 1523; Cortona, Italy
- Nationality: Italian
- Art Movement: High Renaissance
- Painting School: Tuscan school
- Genre: religious painting
- Field: painting, fresco
- Influenced on: Raphael
- Friends and Co-workers: Il Sodoma
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Signorelli
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Luca Signorelli (c. 1450—16 October 1523) was an Italian Renaissance painter who was noted in particular for his ability as a draftsman and his use of foreshortening. His massive frescoes of the Last Judgment (1499–1503) in Orvieto Cathedral are considered his masterpiece.
He was born Luca d'Egidio di Ventura in Cortona, Tuscany (some sources call him Luca da Cortona). The precise date of his birth is uncertain, but birth dates between 1441 and 1445 have been proposed. He died in 1523 in his native Cortona, where he is buried. He was likely between seventy-eight and eighty-two years old. He is considered to be part of the Tuscan school, although he also worked extensively in Umbria and Rome.
In 1472 the young artist was painting at Arezzo, and in 1474 at Città di Castello. He presented to Lorenzo de' Medici a work which is likely School of Pan. Janet Ross and her husband Henry discovered the painting in Florence circa 1870 and subsequently sold it to the Kaiser Frederick Museum in Berlin, though it was destroyed by allied bombs in WWII. The painting's subject is almost the same as that which he also painted on the wall of the Petrucci palace in Siena—the principal figures being Pan himself, Olympus, Echo, a man reclining on the ground, and two listening shepherds.
Signorelli paid great attention to anatomy. It is said that he carried on his studies in burial grounds, and his mastery of the human form implies a familiarity resulting from dissections. He surpassed contemporaries in showing the structure and mechanism of the nude in immediate action, even going beyond nature in experiments of this kind, trying hypothetical attitudes and combinations. His drawings in the Louvre demonstrate this and bear a close analogy to the method of Michelangelo. He aimed at powerful truth rather than nobility of form; comparatively neglecting color, and his chiaroscuro exhibits sharp oppositions of lights and shadows. He had a vast influence over the painters of his own and of succeeding times, but had no pupils or assistants of high repute; one being a nephew named Francesco.
Vasari, who claimed Signorelli as a relative, described him as kindly, and a family man, and said that he always lived more like a nobleman than a painter. Vasari included Signorelli's portrait, one of seven, in his study in Arezzo, along with Michelangelo and himself. The Torrigiani Gallery in Florence contains a grand life-sized portrait by Signorelli of a man in a red cap and vest, and corresponds with Vasari's observation. In the National Gallery, London, are the Circumcision of Jesus and three other works. Legend holds that Signorelli depicted himself in the left foreground of his Orvietan mural The Rule of Antichrist. Fra Angelico, his predecessor in the Orvieto cycle, is thought to stand behind him in the piece. However, the figure thought to be Fra Angelico is not dressed as a Dominican friar, and Signorelli's supposed portrait does not match that in Vasari's study.
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