Costante Tencalla (1593, Bissone [1] - 1646, Warsaw [2] ) was a Swiss-Italian architect and sculptor. [3]
Costante Tencalla (1593, Bissone [1] - 1646, Warsaw [2] ) was a Swiss-Italian architect and sculptor. [3]
He trained in Rome [4] [5] and spent his early working life there before going to Poland with his uncle Matteo Castelli, who became Poland's first royal architect. [6] On Castelli's death he moved back to Italy to work on buildings in Bissone and Lugano. [7] He then returned to Warsaw as architect to Władysław IV Vasa, [8] who commissioned important buildings from him in Warsaw, Kraków, Leopoli, Gniezno, and Vilnius (Grand Duchy of Lithuania). [9] [10] [11]
Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli, was an Italian architect born in the modern Swiss canton of Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.
The Salimbeni Prize is awarded by the Fondazione Salimbeni per le Arti Figurative of San Severino Marche to honour excellence in the writing of art history on an Italian subject. The Premio Salimbeni was established in 1983.
Sant'Andrea della Valle is a minor basilica in the rione of Sant'Eustachio of the city of Rome, Italy. The basilica is the general seat for the religious order of the Theatines. It is located at Piazza Vidoni, at the intersection of Corso Vittorio Emanuele and Corso Rinascimento.
Bissone is a municipality in the district of Lugano, in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Carpoforo Tencalla was an influential Swiss-Italian Baroque painter of canvases and frescoes. He is little studied and has come only recently to the attention of art critics and historians. He introduced 17th-century Italian painting style with its mythological subjects to Central Europe, reviving the art of fresco on large surfaces.
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Carlo Giuseppe Ratti (1737–1795) was an Italian art biographer and painter of the late-Baroque period. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Agostino Ratti. Born in Savona, he moved to Rome where he befriended Anton Raphael Mengs and Pompeo Batoni. He died in Genoa, where he labored for many years.
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Domenico Rossi was a Swiss-Italian architect.
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Francesco Aprile, was an Italian sculptor and stucco artist, born in what is now Switzerland, and mainly active in Turin, the Duchy of Savoy, but also Rome.
Giovanni Maria Bernardoni (1541–1605) was a Jesuit and an Italian architect who was the first to design the Baroque style in Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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Carlo Giuseppe Plura was a Swiss-Italian stucco artist and sculptor. He was born in Lugano and died in Borgo San Dalmazzo. Like him, his son Giuseppe Antonio Plura the Elder and Giuseppe Plura the Younger were both sculptors and both active in the United Kingdom.
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Matteo Castelli was a Swiss architect. His nephew Costante Tencalla also became an architect. Further can be attributed to Castelli: in Kraków the church of St. Peter and Paul, the Zbaraski princely chapel in the Dominican church (1627-1629) and the altar of St. Stanislaus in the cathedral, also in Vilnius cathedral the chapel of St. Casimir (1626–1636), the Ujazdowski palace and the royal residence near Warsaw. In Melide he donated a memorial chapel in 1625-1626 and rebuilt the altar of his family in the parish church.
Guido Ceronetti was an Italian poet, philosopher, novelist, translator, journalist and playwright.
Raffaele Licinio was an Italian historian, who, throughout his career, carried out extensive research into the medieval period in Southern Italy. He also taught medieval history at the University of Bari.
The Arese are a prominent family of the Milanese nobility.
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