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Mainardi, Sebastiano
Mainardi, Sebastiano (
b San Gimignano, 23 Sept. 1466;
d ?Florence, Sept. 1513). Florentine painter, a pupil or assistant of Domenico
Ghirlandaio, whose half-sister he married in 1494, a few months after Domenico's death. His name has often been indiscriminately attached to school pieces from the Ghirlandaio workshop (with which he continued his association after Domenico's death), but little is known for certain of his work.
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SAN GIMIGNANO MIGHT BE WORK OF ART
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 5/12/2000; ; 651 words
; ...Bergen County, NJ) 05-12-2000 SAN GIMIGNANO MIGHT BE WORK OF ART By MIKE FARRELL...Francisco. George Berkner lost his in San Gimignano, an historic town nestled in...said. Berkner paid tribute to San Gimignano when it came time to name his...
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San Gimignano's vernaccia has legacy to uphold.(Food)(Wine)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 8/5/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...and no denominazione better than San Gimignano - the famed medieval commune of...oldest white wines, vernaccia di San Gimignano can be one of the country's...famous stone towers that give San Gimignano its distinctive skyline. Fourteen...
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San Gimignano y sus rascacielos medievales.(De Viaje)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 2/20/2005; 700+ words
; ...En medio de la campia toscana, San Gimignano se levanta en lo alto de una colina...acceso al casco amurallado de San Gimignano, el visitante tiene la impresin...el interior de los inmuebles de San Gimignano, poblacin bautizada con el nombre...
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Monika Sosnowska: Galleria Continua.(San Gimignano)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...imagination, and solitude that develop even within blocked situations. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In her installation in San Gimignano, The Room, 2004, Sosnowska addressed the uncertainties of this vision, situating the work in an area of the gallery...
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Michelangelo's favourite tipple
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 10/28/2006; 688 words
; Vernaccia di San Gimignano is among the most picturesquely named...Vernaccia is the grape variety and San Gimignano the beautiful hill town in the Chianti...translates rather prosaically as "San Gimignano's local wine". It was, in 1966...
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Reportage: The invaders are welcome
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/9/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...distance, the 13 medieval towers of San Gimignano thrusting upwards to the sun...tourist invasion, the residents of San Gimignano are preparing to embrace it...paint and a change of style. As San Gimignano gets ready for summer, the...
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The hip hop guide to Tuscany's treasures
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 9/28/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...set in central Tuscany, near San Gimignano, and though I am the de facto...Mariano, just outside Castel San Gimignano. It is a one-grocery, two...more or less equidistant from San Gimignano and Volterra. Siena is about...
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BUY OF THE WEEK
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 7/17/2002; ; 355 words
; ...WEEK San Quirico Vernaccia de San Gimignano, 2001, $11.99 Summer in Tuscany...beautiful places is the medieval city San Gimignano. Like all Tuscan cities and towns...medieval days came from Florence (San Gimignano was aligned with nearby Siena...
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Historic horizons
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 10/5/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...close does the medieval town of San Gimignano reveal itself in its true glory...360-degree panoramic view, San Gimignano looks north- east towards Florence...13th and 14th century heyday, San Gimignano positively bristled with wealth...
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Towers of strength
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 6/6/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...screen spread the towered glory of San Gimignano, probably the most famous silhouette...shrine in the heart of Tuscany, San Gimignano attracts thousands of tourists...from a bed of lazy Tuscan hills, San Gimignano is remarkably unaltered by the...
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San Gimignano
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
San Gimignano , town (1991 pop. 6,956), Tuscany, central Italy. It is a tourist center that has fully preserved its medieval aspect...
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Domenico Ghirlandaio
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1475) in the Chapel of S. Fina in the Collegiata, San Gimignano, Ghirlandaio blended painted with real architecture...Fina, includes a cityscape depicting the towers of San Gimignano. In the Last Supper (1480) in the Church of Ognissanti...
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Maiano Brothers
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...designed the Chapel of Santa Fina in the Collegiata, San Gimignano (1466–8), where he was influenced by...97). The latter collaborated with Giuliano at the Gimignano Chapel, may have designed the portico of Santa Maria...
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Quercia, Jacopo della (1374–1438)
Book article from: The Renaissance
...the Trenta Chapel of the Church of San Frediano in Lucca , but had to halt...however. For the Collegiata in San Gimignano he carved wooden statues of the Virgin...a main entrance of the Church of San Petronio in Bologna. The doorway...
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Pollaiuolo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Coronation of the Virgin in the Church of Sant' Agostino in San Gimignano. Their nephew, Simone del Pollaiuolo, 1457-1508...Hall of the Palazzo Vecchio (1495) and the Church of San Salvatore al Monte (1504), admired for its purity of...
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