Pietro Avogadro (died c. 1730) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. He was born in Brescia and trained with Pompeo Ghiti. He is mentioned by the biographer Luigi Lanzi. Among his works are a Martyrdom of Saints Crispin for the church of San Giuseppe in Brescia. He is also sometimes referred to as Bresciano Avogadro.
Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro, Count of Quaregna and Cerreto (, also, Italian: [ameˈdɛːo avoˈɡaːdro]; 9 August 1776 – 9 July 1856) was an Italian scientist, most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now known as Avogadro's law, which states that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure will contain equal numbers of molecules. In tribute to him, the number of elementary entities (atoms, molecules, ions or other particles) in 1 mole of a substance, 6.02214076×1023, is known as the Avogadro constant, one of the seven SI base units and represented by NA.
Avogadro is an Italian surname, derived from avogaro, a Venetian term for a diocese official. In 1389, bishop Nicolò Beruti, made the office of avogaro hereditary, and a number of noble families with the name Avogaro or Avogadro developed over the following centuries, in Brescia, Vercelli and Treviso.
Alessandro Bonvicino, more commonly known as Moretto, or in Italian Il Moretto da Brescia, was an Italian Renaissance painter from Brescia, where he also mostly worked. His dated works span the period from 1524 to 1554, but he was already described as a master in 1516. He was mainly a painter of altarpieces that tend towards sedateness, mostly for churches in and around Brescia, but also in Bergamo, Milan, Verona and Asola; many remain in the churches they were painted for. Most are on canvas, but a number even of large ones are on wood panel. Only a handful of drawings survive.
Corzano is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy. As of 2011 its population was 1,397.
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle was an Italian writer and art critic, best known as part of "Crowe and Cavalcaselle", for the many works in English on art history he co-authored with Joseph Archer Crowe. Their multi-volume A New History of Painting in Italy continued to be revised and republished until 1909, after both were dead. Though now outdated, these are still often cited by modern art historians.
Girolamo Savoldo, also called Girolamo da Brescia was an Italian High Renaissance painter active mostly in Venice, although he also worked in other cities in northern Italy. He is noted for his subtle use of color and chiaroscuro, and for the sober realism of his works, which are mostly religious subjects, with a few portraits. His portraits are given interest by their accessories or settings; "some even look like extracts from larger narratives".
Giovanni Antonio Capello was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Brescia.
Grazio Cossali, sometimes called Orazio Cossali was an Italian painter who worked in Brescia, Cremona, and Venice, active during the Mannerist or early Baroque periods.
Floriano or Fioravante Ferramola was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Brescia.
Pompeo Ghitti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in and in towns surrounding Brescia.
Francesco Paglia was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, mainly active in Brescia.
Camillo Rama was an Italian painter, active in his native city of Brescia.
Sante Cattaneo or Santo Cattaneo was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, mainly active in Brescia.
Giuseppe Fenaroli Avogadro was an Italian politician and friend of Napoleon I.
San Marco Evangelista is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church located at the end of via Laura Cereto in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Madonna and Child with Four Doctors of the Church is a 1540-1545 oil on canvas painting by Moretto da Brescia, now in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt. From left to right it shows Saint Ambrose, Gregory the Great, Saint Jerome and Augustine of Hippo.
The Orzinuovi Altarpiece or Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints Dominic, Joseph, Vincent Ferrer, Lucy and a Commissioner is a 1525–1530 oil on canvas painting by Moretto da Brescia on the wall of the chancel of the church of San Domenico in Orzinuovi.
Portrait of a Man is an oil on canvas painting by Moretto da Brescia, dated of 1526, now in the National Gallery, London, which acquired it in 1876 from the Fenaroli Avogadro Collection, from Brescia. It is held to be the first surviving standing life-size portrait in art history, predating those of Titian.
St Justina of Padua with a Donor is an oil on panel painting by Moretto da Brescia, executed c. 1530, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, to which it was transferred in the late 19th century soon after the Museum's opening. It shows Justina of Padua.
Lucia Albani Avogadro was an Italian poetess, member of the Albani family.
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