People from Trento - Andrea Pozzo, Martino Martini, Mirko Bortolotti, Chiara Lubich, Christoph Anton Migazzi, Ernest Von Koerber (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Andrea Pozzo, Martino Martini, Mirko Bortolotti, Chiara Lubich, Christoph Anton Migazzi, Ernest von Koerber, Giovanni Kessler, Ida Dalser, Paolo Oss Mazzurana, Daniel Oss, Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Beniamino Andreatta, Alessandro Vittoria, Lorenzo Bernardi, Cesare Maestri, Mauro Trentini, Margherita Cagol, Jacob Acontius, Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen, Cesare Battisti, Matthias Gallas, Marcello Guarducci, Rody Mirri, Francesca Neri, Leonardo Bertagnolli, Adriana Volpe, Ludovico Madruzzo, Galeazzo von Thun und Hohenstein, Bice Bones, Roberto Sighel, Giulia Turco, Antonio da Trento, Hermann Zingerle, Gianna Pederzini, Leopold Ernst von Firmian, Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Alessandro Bonetti, Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce, Mariano Piccoli, Lorenzo Dellai, Giulio Alessandrini, Andrea Stoppini, Giorgio Moser, Francesca Dallape, Renzo Cramerotti. Excerpt: Andrea Pozzo (Latinized version: Andreas Puteus; 30 November 1642 - 31 August 1709) was an Italian Jesuit Brother, Baroque painter and architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician. He was best known for his grandiose frescoes using illusionistic technique called quadratura, in which architecture and fancy are intermixed. His masterpiece is the nave ceiling of the Church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome. Through his techniques, he has become one of the most remarkable figures of the Baroque period. Born in Trento (then under Austrian rule), he did his Humanities at the local Jesuit High School. Showing artistic inclinations he was sent by his father to work with an artist; Pozzo was then 17 years old (in 1659). From aspects of his early style this initial artistic training came probably from Palma il Giovane. After three years he passed under the guidance of another unidentified painter from the workshop of Andrea Sacchi who appears to have taught him ...