#santa maria dei miracoli

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Glory of Angels, Gaudenzio Ferrari (1471-1546)

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Santa Maria in Montesanto, Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Flaminio Obelisk, Piazza del Popolo | Rome, Italy, 1662-1679 VS Giorgio Morandi, Still life, 1958

[jojoseames]

Italian Adventure travelogue paintings!

05: The Spanish Steps, Rome.

06: Fontana del Babuino, Rome. I dropped my paintbrush on this one and had to try to hide the mess it made, and I went, "Ah, yes. It is I who am the baboon."

07: A house Pablo Picasso stayed in in Rome for two months in 1917.

08: Santa Maria in Montesanto and Santa Maria dei Miracoli. The twin churches in the Piazza del Popolo, in Rome.

[mithralinde]

Church of Santa Petronilla

Church of Santa Petronella, Ragusa, Sicily.

Chiesa Di Santa Petronilla, Ragusa 🇮🇹 I decided to collect this information about the The Church of Santa Petronilla, since there was not even a Wikipedia page of it, which is very rare. The Church of Santa Petronilla, or in Italian, Chiesa Di Santa Petronilla, was originally located at the end of the Cava del Pozzo. (I still need to find more information about this cave system, as I am getting…

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Ken Howard (British, b. 1932) - Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice

[beautifulvenezia]

Day 161: The Santa Maria dei Miracoli | Daily Venice for you!

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Venezia

Anna Passini (the artist's wife), Palazzo Priuli, Venezia, 1866 ca. | Ludwig Passini (1832-1903, Austria)

One night in Venice, 1922 | Dean Cornwell (1892-1960, USA)

Venice in gold green blue shades | Dan Schlesinger (USA)

Il Ponte dei Sospiri, Venezia, 1870 | Gustave Doré (1832-1883, France) 

Venice by moonlight, 1870 ca. | Sophus Jacobsen (1833-1912, Norway)

Scena di strada a Venezia (Street scene in Venice), 1882 (National Gallery of Art, Washington) | John Singer Sargent (1856-1925, USA)

Mareggiata, Chioggia, 1890's | Mosè Bianchi (1840-1904, Italia)

Il Molo al tramonto (The pier at sunset), Venezia, 1864 (Ca' Pesaro, Venezia) | Ippolito Caffi (1809-1866, Italia) 

Festa del Redentore (Fireworks in Venice, the Feast of the Redeemer) | Vincenzo Abbati (1803-1866, Italia)

View of Venice, 1894 | Frits Thaulow (1847-1906, Norway)

Canal Grande, Venezia, 1874-75 (Shelburne Museum, Vermont, USA) | Édouard Manet (1832-1883, France)

Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice | Ken Howard (1932, England)

Canal Grande, Venezia, 1907 | Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916, Italia)

Calle di notte | Duilio Corompai (1875-1952, Italia)

Vetro di Murano, in 'Negozio Olivetti', piazza San Marco, Venezia, 2024 | Tony Craigg (1964, England)

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Studio su un lato della chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli e sul cambio di luce accaduto in un tempo di 20 secondi (Venezia, Luglio 2023)

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Memento mori supported by sirens. Renaissance relief. Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Brescia.

[girljeremystrong]

hi cat!! i have a favor to ask - would you be able to tell me some of your favorite places/cities/anything in italy? my cousins & i are planning a trip & are a bit overwhelmed with choices haha

YES but first i have to warn you that i have barely scratched the surface of the beauty that's in this country and most importantly i have barely been in the south and on the islands except for i went to naples a decade ago so i can't really recommend anything there which is a shame because the south of italy is INCREDIBLE. for instance my dream is to take a road trip through sicily and wander around for like a month. again i can't really speak on it because i've never been but i think it must be one of the most splendid places in the world and it's full of ancient greek architecture and the sea is wonderful and the cities are full of beautiful art and i can't wait to go and see it all with my own eyes.

of course i live in tuscany and specifically near florence and i think florence is the best of the best in the whole world and i think you should definitely go and see it. but also it's a small-ish city and while exploring it fully would take a lifetime i think if your goal is to visit a few places and cities in the same holiday you can probably get away with spending like four days in florence and then go somewhere else! places that i think you should definitely visit while in florence are: the uffizi galleries of course, orsanmichele (i got chocked up the first time i visited because it's so beautiful and the views of the city are stunning), the cathedral of santa maria del fiore where you can decide if you want to climb up the bell tower or the dome (or both if you're very fit!) and i particularly love the medici chapels and the museum galleria palatina in palazzo pitti. and everything is in the city center so it's easy to walk everywhere and walking everywhere you'll be able to see the piazza della signoria with our most beautiful palazzo vecchio and the ponte vecchio!

while you're in florence you might want to go to a few nearby places like you could take an hour train to pisa where you honestly just need a couple hours to bask in the glory of the piazza dei miracoli (which houses the famous crooked tower but also a gorgeous cathedral and baptistery). very near florence (like a short bus ride away) is fiesole which is a cutie little mini town where you can get one beautiful view over florence and also see etruscan/roman excavations and ruins including a beautiful roman theater! also near florence but slightly harder to reach is certaldo where one of the fathers of italian literature was born and which is famous nowadays for being gorgeous and old and having a beautiful beautiful palazzo pretorio. siena is almost a must see in my opinion and it's a train ride away from florence and it is just a beauty. so incredible. further south we have two absolutely stunning little gems called san gimignano and volterra which you might know from twilight SHDJDKJF but no seriously they are so beautiful and you eat so well there and both are so worth seeing.

liguria is just north of tuscany and i know it a little. i think of course that cinque terre are incredible and so italian and great but i will add that a little seaside town called portovenere should absolutely be added to the itinerary if you're gonna be close because it's beautiful and it houses one of the best things i have ever seen in my life which is byron grotto (yes like the poet! apparently he would swim out of there to go reach shelley?) which is soooo gorgeous.

so like. i don't know because i am biased and i was born and raised here but i think tuscany (and that corner of liguria) is the most beautiful gorgeous and perfect little triangle of land in the whole world and if you're coming to italy from everywhere else i think that's the first place you should visit.

of course milan and rome and turin and naples and venice are all incredible and worth of a (long) visit and i have found such beauty and met incredible people and been left speechless by what i've seen in each of those cities but maybe that's for another post and also i definitely do not know them nearly as well as i know florence but i think you would love to visit them.

IN CONCLUSION. i don't know that this will have clared your head in any way at all. it's a bit all over the place. i love florence and i love tuscany but italy is beautiful in every corner in every way!

[scottsbifh]

The Piazza dell Popolo in Rome is an extremely significant square as it's center piece is an Obelisk of Rameses II from Heliopopolis, Egypt (the Flaminio Obelisk). It was brought back to Rome by Augustus and originally placed on the Spina in the middle of the Circus Maximus.

The Obelisk is surrounded by four small fountains, each depicts a lion upon a plinth. The two domed buildings are the Santa Maria Motesanto and the Santa Maria dei Miracoli Churches.

The main road exiting between the two is the Via del Corso (Via Flata) the entire layout is an architectural marvel, particularly when viewed from the air.

Image by CC-BY-SA. dansromanhistory Dan's Roman History

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Nish Munshi (born 1987, USA)

The Resurrection of Christ (date?). Antonio Campi (Italian, 1523-1587). Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli presso San Celso, Milan, Lombardy, Italy.

[misscrawfords]

Hello, Rose. :) I'm sorry if I'm mistaken but I have the impression you've been to Venice somewhat recently (probably before pandemic, but still). If so, if you don't mind me asking, how did you get from the airport (if it were the case) to the city centre? Any other recs? If everything goes according to the plan I am to go there at the end of the month. Thanks in advance. :)

Oooh Venice! That is so lovely. I haven't actually been for over 10 years now (yikes!!) but I used to live there as a child and visited many times since so I do know it very well. In terms of getting from the airport to the city centre, I've always just got the public bus from outside the airport to Piazzale Roma which is the only part of Venice accessible to motor vehicles. You can get a water taxi I believe but I expect that's really expensive. The bus ride is not the comfiest but it's convenient and affordable. When you get to Piazzale Roma you can get a vaporetto (water bus) down the Grand Canal to wherever you need to go or proceed on foot. Most of the time you will be on foot unless you want to take the extremely expensive water taxies (I've literally never taken one) and there are lots of bridges so I'd bear that in mind when considering packing.

A lot of my food and drink recs are decades out of date, but here are a few things I wouldn't miss in terms of sight-seeing:

Piazza San Marco including the Basilica, Doge's Palace and Campanile. I recommend going up the Campanile on a clear, bright day. You can see as far as the Alps on a good day! That was one of my favourite things to do in Venice. Go back to the piazza in the evening with an ice-cream and watch the musicians. (Better to do that and have a wander between the different cafes than actually have a drink at the cafes - they're super expensive and you're stuck in one spot.)

Accademia art gallery

Scuola Dalmata di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni - tiny but the paintings are amazing. As featured prominently in my fanfic Consolation Prize. :P

Take a day to get the boat to Torcello and Burano. Torcello has an ancient church and is just incredibly remote and peaceful. Burano is extremely pretty with brightly coloured houses.

Walk all the way along the Riva degli Schiavoni from Piazza San Marco right down to Giardini - that's where the Biennale is held and one of the only real green spaces in Venice. The atmosphere feels different down there. Return via Arsenale.

Go to the Zattere - on the other side of the Grand Canal from San Marco - combine this with the Accademia perhaps. It's a lovely walk along the Canale della Giudecca and much less crowded than the Riva degli Schiavoni. You can also hop on a vaporetto here to the Giudecca and have a wander there, though I admit I don't know that area very well.

Visit the Ghetto in Canareggio, the old Jewish quarter. You'll notice the houses are so much taller than elsewhere in the city because of the need to fit so many people in. I'm pretty sure there's an old Synagogue you can visit but tbh I can't remember.

Other lovely churches beyond San Marco are the Frari, Santi Giovanni e Paulo, Santa Maria dei Miracoli.

Nice campi to sit in with an aperitivo - Santa Margarita, Santa Maria Formosa, Santo Stefano, Erberia by the Rialto (also go there in the morning for the fish and veg market)

That's all I can think of at the moment! I hope you have the most FABULOUS time! Do you know where you're staying yet? My primary school friend's family owns a hotel which I can recommend you if you like! I am feeling so sad/happy/nostalgic now. It's been so long since I've been there but I don't know if I can go back because when I do it won't be there same. It would be like stepping into a memory but the place and I will have changed so much... It's almost better to preserve the memories untouched, you know? But at the same time, I long for it. I can feel Venice in my very bones. It is the most deeply held and profoundly important part of my soul!

[esplorandolacitta]

OSPEDALE DEI CROCIATI - Molfetta

La Puglia durante il Medioevo è stata costantemente percorsa dai pellegrini che si recavano a San Michele del Gargano, a San Nicola di Bari e si imbarcavano per Gerusalemme. Certamente luogo di sosta e cura di pellegrini era a Molfetta l’Ospedale detto “dei Crociati” vicinissimo agli antichi approdi di Cala San Giacomo e Cala dei Pali e risalente al secolo XI. Posto a Nord della Basilica della Madonna dei Martiri, edificato su una struttura preesistente, è caratterizzato da forme essenziali, con arcate regolari in pietra, sorrette da massicci pilastri che lo dividono in tre navate. Lungo i muri perimetrali interni si notano mensole per lucerne e nicchie. 

Fonte : Comune di Molfetta

**Non tutti sanno che…**

la sua vera destinazione dell’ospedale dei crociati di Molfetta, era in realtà destinato al ricovero dei pellegrini e non a quello dei crociati. 

Ma allora, chi ha diffuso l'errata notizia (oggi diremmo appunto fake news) che l'ospedaletto fosse "dei crociati"?

Per scoprirlo dobbiamo fare cronologicamente un balzo in avanti, e arrivare al diciassettesimo secolo. Nel 1600 infatti, l'allora vescovo di Molfetta Giovanni Antonio Bovio, e il patrizio Giuseppe de Luca, esaminarono la pergamena di fondazione di S. Maria dei Martiri e la interpretarono in malo modo.

Si convinsero che l'ospedaletto adibito al ricovero dei pellegrini fosse in realtà destinato ai crociati in partenza per la Terra Santa.

Il de Luca quindi pubblicò le sue evidentemente errate deduzioni in un libro intitolato "La Breve Historia dell'origine, fondazione, e miracoli della devota Chiesa de S. Maria de' Marteri".

La clamorosa svista non subì però una damnatio memoriae, tutt'altro: i più importanti storici locali del tempo, non si preoccuparono di verificare l'esatta veridicità della notizia, ma si limitarono a riportarla così come era giunta loro. E così la leggenda arrivò indenne fino ai nostri giorni, diventando una consolidata realtà della storia molfettese.

Fonte : Molfetta viva

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.. Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice