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Sant'Afra, Brescia

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The church of Sant'Afra in Brescia, also known as the church of Sant'Afra in Sant'Eufemia, is located on Corso Magenta, near Piazzale Arnaldo. [1]

23 relations: Baroque architecture, Benedict of Nursia, Brescia, Camillo Rama, Carlo Carlone, Catholic Church, Enea Salmeggia, Faustinus and Jovita, Francesco Giugno, Illusionistic ceiling painting, Lattanzio Gambara, Moretto, Moretto da Brescia, Palma il Giovane, Paolo Veronese, Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari, Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Pompeo Ghitti, San Salvatore, Brescia, Sant'Angela Merici, Brescia, Sante Cattaneo, Scholastica, Vincenzo Civerchio.

Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church.

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Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia (Benedictus Nursiae; Benedetto da Norcia; Vulgar Latin: *Benedecto; Benedikt; 2 March 480 – 543 or 547 AD) is a Christian saint, who is venerated in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion and Old Catholic Churches.

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Brescia

Brescia (Lombard: Brèsa,, or; Brixia; Bressa) is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy.

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Camillo Rama

Camillo Rama (1586 – c. 1627) was an Italian painter, active in his native city of Brescia.

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Carlo Carlone

Carlo Innocenzo Carlone or Carloni (1686–March 17, 1775) was an Italian painter and engraver, active especially in Germany.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Enea Salmeggia

Enea Salmeggia (c. 1556 – 23 February 1626) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, active mainly in his native city of Bergamo.

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Faustinus and Jovita

Saints Jovita and Faustinus were said to be Christian martyrs under Hadrian.

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Francesco Giugno

Francesco Giugno (1577 - c. 1621) was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist and early-Baroque periods, mainly active in Brescia and Mantua.

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Illusionistic ceiling painting

Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which trompe l'oeil, perspective tools such as foreshortening, and other spatial effects are used to create the illusion of three-dimensional space on an otherwise two-dimensional or mostly flat ceiling surface above the viewer.

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Lattanzio Gambara

Lattanzio Gambara (c. 1530 – 18 March 1574) was an Italian painter, active in a Renaissance and Mannerist styles.

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Moretto

Moretto is a surname, and may refer to.

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Moretto da Brescia

Alessandro Bonvicino (also Buonvicino) (December 22, 1554), more commonly known as Moretto, or in Italian Il Moretto da Brescia (the Moor of Brescia), was an Italian Renaissance painter from Brescia, where he also mostly worked.

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Palma il Giovane

Iacopo Negretti (1548/50 – 14 October 1628), best known as Jacopo or Giacomo Palma il Giovane or simply Palma Giovane ("Young Palma"), was an Italian painter from Venice.

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Paolo Veronese

Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese (1528 – 19 April 1588), was an Italian Renaissance painter, based in Venice, known for large-format history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573).

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Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari

Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari (1735 - 1787) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Parma in a late-Baroque and early Neoclassical style.

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Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo

The Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo is a public art museum in Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy, exhibiting mainly paintings by local artists from the 13th through 18th centuries.

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Pompeo Ghitti

Pompeo Ghitti (1631–1703 or 1704) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in and in towns surrounding Brescia.

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San Salvatore, Brescia

San Salvatore (or Santa Giulia) is a former monastery in Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy, now turned into a museum.

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Sant'Angela Merici, Brescia

Sant'Angela Merici is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church located on Via Francesco Crispi, in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.

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Sante Cattaneo

Sante Cattaneo or Santo Cattaneo (August 8, 1739 – 1819) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, mainly active in Brescia.

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Scholastica

Scholastica (c. 480 – 10 February 543) is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

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Vincenzo Civerchio

Vincenzo Civerchio or Civercio (c. 1470 – c. 1544) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, born at Crema, and active also in Brescia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant'Afra,_Brescia

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