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Giorgio Giulio Clovio
Giorgio Giulio Clovio , 1498-1578, Italian illuminator, miniaturist, and painter, also called Macedo or Il Macedone because of his Macedonian origin. He studied at Rome with Giulio Romano and at Verona under Girolamo de' Libri, from whom he learned illuminating. Clovio was employed by Louis II of... Read more |
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Giulio Caccini
Giulio Caccini , c.1546-1618, Italian composer and singer. Both he and Peri composed settings of Ottavio Rinuccini's Euridice (1600), the earliest operas of which the music is extant. Nuove musiche (1601), a collection of his madrigals and arias, is the most important collection among the early... Read more |
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Giulio Gatti-Casazza
Giulio Gatti-Casazza , 1869-1940, Italian operatic manager. In 1893 he succeeded his father as director of the municipal theater at Ferrara. After directing (1898-1908) the La Scala Opera Company in Milan, he became (1908) director of the Metropolitan Opera, New York City. In 1935 he retired to... Read more |
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Giovanni Francesco Penni
Penni, Giovanni Francesco (b Florence, c.1496; d Naples, ?c.1536). Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, where he and Giulio Romano were Raphael's main assistants (he was nicknamed Il Fattore, which might be translated as ‘right-hand man’). Various parts of works by the master have... Read more |
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mannerism
mannerism a style in art and architecture (c.1520-1600), originating in Italy as a reaction against the equilibrium of form and proportions characteristic of the High Renaissance. In Florence, Pontormo and Bronzino, and in Rome, Il Rosso, Parmigianino, and Beccafumi created elegant figures... Read more |
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San Miguel
San Miguel , city (1993 pop. 118,214), E El Salvador, at the foot of San Miguel volcano (6,996 ft/2,132 m). It has textile, rope, and dairy-products industries. The region produces cotton, henequen, and vegetable oil. San Miguel was founded in 1530. The town was the site of fighting between... Read more |
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Giulio Romano
Giulio Romano , c.1492-1546, Italian painter, architect, and decorator, whose real name was Giulio Pippi. He was the favorite pupil of Raphael and while still a youth was entrusted with the painting of most of the frescoes in the loggias (from designs by Raphael) and a group of figures in the Stanza... Read more |
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Giulio Alberoni
Giulio Alberoni , 1664-1752, Italian statesman in Spanish service, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Appointed (1713) representative of the duke of Parma at the court of Philip V of Spain, Alberoni gained influence and ultimately became de facto prime minister. With the princesse des Ursins ... Read more |
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Giulio Andreotti
Giulio Andreotti , 1919-, Italian political leader. A member of the Christian Democratic party, Andreotti held a variety of ministerial posts throughout the 1950s and 60s and first served as premier in 1972-73. He subsequently held the premiership again (1976-79), was minister for foreign affairs... Read more |
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Giulio Cesare Procaccini
Procaccini, Giulio Cesare (b Bologna, 30 May 1574; d Milan, 14 Nov. 1625). Italian painter and sculptor, the most distinguished member of a family of artists. He worked mainly in Milan, where the family settled when he was a child, and also in Modena and Genoa. Early in his career he was primarily... Read more |
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