Places to see in ( Parma - Italy ) Camera di San Paolo
Places to see in ( Parma - Italy ) Camera di San Paolo
In February to September 1519, Antonio Correggio was commissioned by the Abbess Giovanna Piacenza to decorated the domed ceiling of her private dining room, now called the Camera di San Paolo. He painted between the ribs to simulate a pergola, pierced by oculi (small windows) through which smiling cherubs and hunting dogs. Below the oculi are lunettes with monochromic scenes painted to simulate marble. The fireplace is frescoed with an depiction of the goddess Diana. The frescoes are considered one of the masterpieces of Italian Renaissance art.
Apart from its mastery of style and delightful vivacity, the Corregio frescoes have spurred a debate as to the underlying significance of the iconography, in part debating the significance of pagan and hunting scenes for a nunnery. The convent was known for the laxity of its rules, and had been embroiled, along with the abbess in various local land disputes. Critics including Roberto Longhi and Erwin Panofsky have dedicated monographs to the subject.
The private room of the abbess was frescoed (1514) by Alessandro Araldi with grotteschi. The monastery contains a chapel of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria frescoed with scenes of her life also by Araldi. The rooms are open to the public as a museum.
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Camera di S Paolo di Parma Italia. Monastero benedettino. 2018.
La Camera di San Paolo di Parma vista dai bambini. Questo video è stato realizzato dalla Classe 4 della Scuola Primaria di Vigatto Parma Italia nell'anno scolastico 2017-2018 per il progetto Piccoli Viaggiatori nella città d'oro, dei Rotary Club Parma, Parma Est e PArma Farnese del 2072 Distretto del Rotary International.
Camera della Badessa. Alice e Livio. Parma
Correggio, Parmigianino: la Scuola di Parma
Denominata nel Settecento Scuola di Parma, diversa per stile e poetica da quelle romana, toscana, veneta, contempla i pittori Antonio Allegri detto il “Correggio” (1489-1534) e Francesco Mazzola detto il “Parmigianino” (1503-1540). I due maestri sono stati affiancati da quattro artisti meno noti - Michelangelo Anselmi (1491 o 1492-1555 circa), Francesco Maria Rondani (1490-1550 circa), Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli (1500 circa-1569) e Giorgio Gandini detto “Gandini del Grano” (1480 circa-1538), tutti attivi a Parma. Si dedicarono a soggetti religiosi e mitologici. Correggio iniziò con gli affreschi della camera della Badessa nel monastero di San Paolo e la cupola della Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista. Fu tra i primi italiani a usare preparazioni colorate per tavole e tele, sopra cui costruiva accuratamente le forme con strati, o “veli” di pittura, “come se fossero stati fusi insieme a guisa di cera sul fuoco”. Il Parmigianino appena sedicenne dipinse la pala con il Battesimo di Cristo, per la chiesa dei frati zoccolanti dell’Annunziata. Eccelse anche nel ritratto, Autoritratto entro uno specchio convesso. Note le sue incisioni all’acquaforte, in cui la matrice incisa con il bulino o la puntasecca veniva rielaborata, adottando morsure multiple alla ricerca di nuovi effetti tonali.
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☽‡☾ LUZI - fumära [2019]
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LuZi's Lp was recorded between 2014 and 2017 in LuZi's bedroom.
Drums tracks were recorded at Retrovox Studio, Parma, in October 2018. Mixing and mastering Retrovox Studio.
LuZi: Vocals, guitars, bass, percussions, piano, samples.
K. Rossi: Drums
Chiara Bulloni Serra: vocals
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The image on the cover is a detail from the Correggio (Antonio Allegri)'s frescos in the Camera di S. Paolo in Parma, 1519.
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Fumära lyric:
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- Fumära
adesa al frèd l'è madur
- fumära
a véna chèr anca'l scur
- fumära
i fos'i venen pù fond
- fumära
l'ätor mond l'è gnù al mond
a't'zi pù sicur ed gninta
e me mèdra c'la canta,
ancora l'as'senta
Resga resga la fumära
par ander a Frasanera
Frasanera dal mulen
tir la coa al cagnolen (tradizionale)
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Fog (ENGLISH)
- Fog
now the cold is ripe
- fog
becomes bright even the dark
- fog
the graves become deeper
-fog
the other world has come to world
you're not sure anymore about anything
and my mother who sings
still one can hear
Saw saw the fog
to reach Frassinara
Frassinara by the mill
pull the tail to the little dog (traditional nursery rhyme)
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Nebbia (ITALIANO)
- Nebbia
adesso il freddo è maturo
- nebbia
diventa chiaro anche lo scuro
- nebbia
le fosse diventano più profonde
- nebbia
l'altro mondo è venuto al mondo
non sei più sicuro di niente
e mia madre che canta
ancora si sente
Sega sega la nebbia
per andare a Frassinara
Frassinara dal mulino
tira la coda al cagnolino (filastrocca tradizionale)
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Places to see in ( Parma - Italy ) Monastero di San Giovanni Evangelista
Places to see in ( Parma - Italy ) Monastero di San Giovanni Evangelista
San Giovanni Evangelista is a church in Parma, northern Italy, part of a complex also including a Benedictine convent and grocery. Works for the abbey and church were started in the 10th century over a pre-existing oratory associated with St. Colombanus. In 1477 the whole complex was damaged by a fire. The abbey basilica was rebuilt from around 1490, with the present design by Bernardino Zaccagni dating from 1510. The construction ended around 1519. The design included since the beginning a thoroughly painting decoration of the interior, and a contract had been signed with the young Correggio, who a had already worked in another Benedictine monastery, in the Camera della Badessa of San Paolo.
Correggio executed five frescoes groups. The first includes the lunette with St. John and the Eagle (c. 1520), followed by the dome, with the Ascension of Christ and the drum and the four pendentives decoration. The third work was the decoration of the vault and the apse ceiling of the Cappella Maggiore, partially destroyed in 1586 when the choir was prolonged: today the central fragment with the Coronation of the Virgin (now at the Galleria nazionale di Parma) has survived. The fourth intervention was in the choir's walls, which were totally destroyed during its reconstruction. Finally, Correggio added a painted frieze which runs for the whole internal perimeter.
Preparatory drawings show that also the parts executed by his pupils were designed by Correggio, such as the candelabra in the presbytery's vault and the puttos on the cross-vaults. Around 1524, Correggio also painted two canvasses in the Del Bono Chapel, now at the Galleria nazionale di Parma: the Lamentation for Dead Christ and the Martyrdom of Four Saints.
The marble façade of the church was designed by Simone Moschino in Baroque style in 1604, and completed in 1607. The bell tower on the right side, perhaps designed by Giovanni Battista Magnani, was completed in 1613. With a height of 75 meters, it is the tallest in Parma.
The interior is on the Latin cross plan, with a nave and two aisles covered with cross vaults, and a dome at the crossing. The structure is similar to the nearby cathedral's. The grooved piers are Renaissance elements of classical inspiration. In the nave is a frieze by Correggio and his workshop (c. 1522-1524). Is ia long strip with monochrome paintings (with few red details) on a dark blue background, including also some tondoes with portraits of Benedictine popes, cardinals and monks. The main feature is a series of puttos in actions symbolizing the importance of the Christian mess and sacrifice. The grotesque decorations on the semi-piers and the vault decoration (with candelabra, puttos and symbols of St. John the Evangelist) were also from Correggio's pupils, in particular Michelangelo Anselmi (c. 1520).
The monastery has three cloisters. The first has Ionic columns, the second has decorations by Correggio and the third, known as Cloister of St. Benedict, has early 16th-century frescoes. The associated library has manuscript and codexes testifying the amanuensis activity of the local monks. The manuscripts arrived here from the monastery of Santa Giustina in Padua without decorations, and here were decorated by Damiano da Moile, Francino da Moile and, starting from 1492, da Michele da Genova.
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L'ultima Notte. Il cortometraggio di Irish Braschi
L’Ultima Notte è il titolo del cortometraggio scritto e diretto dal regista Irish Braschi e ambientato nella Camera di San Paolo a Parma.
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Best Attractions & Things to do in Parma , Province of Parma
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Basilica di Santa Maria della Steccata(Madonna della Steccata)
Battistero di Parma
Caffe' dei Marchesi
Camera di San Paolo
Castello dei Burattini
Cattedrale di Parma
Monastero di San Giovanni Evangelista
Museo Lombardi - Marie Louise and Napoleon
Teatro Farnese
Teatro Regio
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Pronti Partenza...Via - PARMA capitale gastronomica d'Italia #documentario
In questa puntata di Pronti Partenza ...Via viene presentata PARMA, capoluogo di provincia distesa nella pianura emiliana.
Parma è legata, così come capita con molte altre città d'Italia, al nome di una famiglia che la governò a lungo: i Farnese, autori dei palazzi che ancora oggi sono un segno distintivo per la città. Il più imponente è il Palazzo della Pilotta, sviluppatosi in fasi diverse e rimasto incompiuto. Al suo interno sono ospitati la Galleria Nazionale, la Biblioteca Palatina, il museo Bodoniano e lo stupefacente Teatro Farnese: questo, un gioiello di architettura teatrale interamente in legno, è uno dei primi teatri coperti in Italia dopo l'Olimpico di Vicenza e quello di Sabbioneta. Distrutto e ricostruito dopo il secondo conflitto mondiale rimane a testimonianza di una delle più belle architetture teatrali del mondo.
La città oltre a fregiarsi di tale gioiello, vanta anche l'ottocentesco Teatro Regio, uno dei più importanti teatri lirici all'italiana. Parma è fortemente legata alla musica con manifestazioni e festival, spesso legati alla figura di Giuseppe Verdi. In città vi sono musei e spazi appositamente pensati per l'ascolto musicale, dalla casa della musica, agli auditorium, al museo dell'opera, alla casa del suono. Ma la città è anche fortemente legata ai sui prodotti gastronomici tipici di rilevanza internazionale come il parmigiano reggiano e il prosciutto di Parma.
Non mancano poi luoghi e angoli in cui assaporare l'arte, il Duomo, il battistero con le sculture dell'Antelami, la chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista, l'antica spezieria dei benedettini, la Camera di San Paolo dipinta dal Correggio, la basilica di Santa Maria della Steccata.
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Puntata condotta da Fabrizio Vaghi e Paola Scorletti,
con la partecipazione di Annarita Ziveri (Soprintendenza ai Beni Storici, Artistici ed Etnoantropologici di Parma e Piacenza) e Laura Maria Ferraris (Assessore alla Cultura del Comune di Perugia).
Le immagini dei beni appartenenti alla Soprintendenza BSAE sono su concessione del Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo - Galleria Nazionale di Parma.
Si ringraziano inoltre per la disponibilità il Comune di Parma (S.O. Turismo e promozione del territorio), Istituzione Casa della Musica, Teatro Regio di Parma, Fabriceria della Basilica Cattedrale, Monastero di San Giovanni Evangelista, Prosciutteria Noi da Parma.
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Presentazione del cortometraggio L'ultima notte di Irish Braschi - Parma, Camera della Badessa
Servizio mandato in onda da Teleducato ( riguardante la presentazione del cortometraggio L'ultima notte realizzato da Irish Braschi all'interno della Camera della Badessa - grandiosa opera del Correggio - a Parma. La conferenza stampa si è svolta presso il Monastero di San Paolo il giorno 5 Ottobre 2017 alle ore 11,00.
Attori: Massimiliano Davoli e Cristiana Vaccaro.
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La Camera della Badessa di Antonio Allegri
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St. John Evangelist Abbey, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Europe
San Giovanni Evangelista is a church in Parma, northern Italy, part of a complex also including a Benedictine convent and grocery. Works for the abbey and church were started in the 10th century over a pre-existing oratory associated with St. Colombanus. In 1477 the whole complex was damaged by a fire. The abbey basilica was rebuilt from around 1490, with the present design by Bernardino Zaccagni dating from 1510. The construction ended around 1519. The design included since the beginning a thoroughly painting decoration of the interior, and a contract had been signed with the young Correggio, who a had already worked in another Benedictine monastery, in the Camera della Badessa of San Paolo. Correggio executed five frescoes groups. The first includes the lunette with St. John and the Eagle (c. 1520), followed by the dome, with the Ascension of Christ and the drum and the four pendentives decoration. The third work was the decoration of the vault and the apse ceiling of the Cappella Maggiore, partially destroyed in 1586 when the choir was prolonged: today the central fragment with the Coronation of the Virgin (now at the Galleria nazionale di Parma) has survived. The fourth intervention was in the choir's walls, which were totally destroyed during its reconstruction. Finally, Correggio added a painted frieze which runs for the whole internal perimeter. Preparatory drawings show that also the parts executed by his pupils were designed by Correggio, such as the candelabra in the presbytery's vault and the puttos on the cross-vaults. Around 1524, Correggio also painted two canvasses in the Del Bono Chapel, now at the Galleria nazionale di Parma: the Lamentation for Dead Christ and the Martyrdom of Four Saints. The marble façade of the church was designed by Simone Moschino in Baroque style in 1604, and completed in 1607. The bell tower on the right side, perhaps designed by Giovanni Battista Magnani, was completed in 1613. With a height of 75 meters, it is the tallest in Parma. The interior is on the Latin cross plan, with a nave and two aisles covered with cross vaults, and a dome at the crossing. The structure is similar to the nearby cathedral's. The grooved piers are Renaissance elements of classical inspiration. In the nave is a frieze by Correggio and his workshop (c. 1522-1524). Is ia long strip with monochrome paintings (with few red details) on a dark blue background, including also some tondoes with portraits of Benedictine popes, cardinals and monks. The main feature is a series of puttos in actions symbolizing the importance of the Christian mess and sacrifice. The grotesque decorations on the semi-piers and the vault decoration (with candelabra, puttos and symbols of St. John the Evangelist) were also from Correggio's pupils, in particular Michelangelo Anselmi (c.1520). The left nave has a baptismal font whose base is a c. 1st century AD Roman funerary monument. The twelve side chapels were frescoes by local artists (including Angelo Michele Colonna) in the late 16th century and early 17th century. The first chapel on the left has an arch frescoed by Parmigianino, with St. Agatha and the Executioner and Sts. Stephen and Lawrence. These are monumental figures influenced by Pordenone's frescoes in the Cathedral of Cremona. Another Sts. Stephen and Lawrence and a Saint Vitalis with the Horse, both by Parmigianino, are in the following chapel. Attributed to Parmigianino, but today considered by Anselmi, is a fresco cycle in the Zancheri Chapel, whose altarpiece is by Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli (Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria, 1536). Anselmi also painted a Christ Carrying the Cross (c. 1522) in the sixth left chapel. Works in the right chapels include an Cristoforo Caselli's Adoration of the Magi (1449, third chapel), Mazzola Bedoli's altarpiece of Madonna with Child and St. James (c. 1543-1545, fourth chapel), and 18th century copies of Correggio's canvasses in the Del Bono Chapel, whose arch has maintained frescoes executed by his pupils under his design (Conversion of St. Paul and Saints Andrew and Peter). The ceiling of the left crossing was painted by Anselmi with a St. Benedict Enthroned and Four Saints (1521), while the walls show terracotta sculptures by Antonio Begarelli (St. John the Evangelist and Madonna with Child and St. John, c. 1543).
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Correggio: A collection of 172 works (HD)
Description: Born in 1489, Antonio Allegri da Correggio was an Italian artist associated with the High Renaissance. His work is among the most famous of the sixteenth century. His compositions were known for their dramatic subject matter and vigor. His works have also been notable for their sensuality. Regarded as a revolutionary artist of whom little is known, he influenced subsequent generations of artists. His most famous works include The Adoration of the Magi (1516-1518), The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (1526-1527), and Leda with the Swan (1531-1532).
Born in Correggio, Italy, the artist is primarily known by his birthplace. Scholars believe his father was a merchant, but very little is known of Correggio’s training except that he was the apprentice of Francesco Bianchi Ferrara of Modena. Early in his career Correggio resided in his hometown. One of his earliest paintings is the Adoration of the Child with St. Elizabeth and John (c.1508). He also painted several tondos for the Mantua Church of Sant’Andrea which he completed in 1514. With his celebrity rising, he was commissioned to paint the Madonna altarpiece for the St. Francis Monastery near the town of Correggio.
In 1516 Correggio left for Parma where he would spend most of his career. There he became associated with the Mannerist style, an intellectual movement of the high Renaissance known for its artificial approaches to art which was a reaction to the naturalism of artists like Michelangelo and Raphael. A few years later, in 1519, he married Girolama Francesca di Braghetis. She, too, was from Correggio. One of their sons, Pomponio Allegri, became a painter, though he did not achieve the fame of his father. During his early career in Parma, Correggio painted Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John (1516) and Madonna of Albinea (1514) which is lost today.
Correggio became known for his innovative interior designs as evidenced by his major commission painting in the Camera di San Paolo of the convent of St. Paul. By 1520 he began to paint the domes for the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista and the Cathedral of Parma. The Parma Cathedral features Correggio’s Assumption of the Virgin (1526-1530) which became one of his masterpieces and most influential works. While Correggio typically painted religious scenes, he is also famous for his set of Loves of Jupiter, mythological paintings that include such works as Leda with the Swan and Venus and Cupid with a Satyr (c.1528). Many of Correggio’s works (which are not attached to cathedrals) are collected by the world’s most prestigious museums.
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PARMA Il Castello dei Burattini - Museo Giordano Ferrari - Museo dei Burattini
Il Castello dei Burattini-Museo Giordano Ferrari, è nato nel 2002, nelle stanze dell’ ex-convento di San Paolo. La sua apertura ha segnato un momento importante nella storia dello studio del teatro di figura italiano e internazionale.
Il Museo è frutto del sogno che Giordano Ferrari aveva accarezzato per buona parte della sua vita egli aveva infatti raccolto lungo l’arco della propria esistenza, con paziente tenacia e viva passione, le testimonianze della vita e dell’attività di generazioni di burattinai.
Si trattava di dare alla collezione un luogo fisico ove essere conservata e valorizzata.
La comune volontà del Banco di Sardegna e del Comune di Parma ha portato, negli anni ottanta, all’acquisizione del materiale di Giordano Ferrari, con l’impegno di renderlo alla pubblica fruizione in un museo.
Da allora l’impegno del Comune e dell’Istituto Beni Culturali della Regione Emilia Romagna ha consentito il recupero funzionale di un’ala del San Paolo mettendola a disposizione della straordinaria raccolta di marionette e burattini.
Places to see in ( Parma - Italy ) Teatro Farnese
Places to see in ( Parma - Italy ) Teatro Farnese
Teatro Farnese is a Baroque-style theatre in Parma, Italy. It was built in 1618 by Giovanni Battista Aleotti. The theatre was almost destroyed by an Allied air raid during World War II. It was rebuilt and reopened in 1962. Some claim this as the first permanent proscenium theatre (that is, a theatre in which the audience views the action through a single frame, which is known as the proscenium arch).
The Teatro Farnese (Farnese Theatre) is one of the most breath-taking sites in all of Parma if not of Italy. Built in 1618 by order of Ranuccio I, duke of Parma and Piacenza, and designed by the ferrarese architect, Giovan Battista Aleotti; the theatre was built to celebrate the passing of Cosimo II de' Medici through Parma on his way to Milan to visit the tomb of San Carlo Borromeo and to confirm the relationship between the two ducal families which had been sealed by marriage in 1615.
However due to health problems, Cosimo II de' Medici cancelled the proposed trip to Milan and therefore the theatre could only be inaugurated 10 years later in 1628 for the marriage between Margherita de' Medici and the Duke Odoardo. For the occasion the theatre hosted the Mercurio e Marte (Mercury and Mars) by Claudio Achillini and music by Claudio Monteverdi. The climax of the spectacle came with a extraordinary naumachia (naval battle) for which they flooded the platea of the theatre via a number of pumps located underneath the stage. The theatre also featured a balcony for the Dukes, perhaps the the invention of what would become common place in the greatest theatres around the world: the Royal Booth.
The Farnese Theatre was built entirely out of wood and plaster and the painted so it seemed to be made of expensive marbles. Unfortunately the Theatre was subject to bombing in May 1944 and was almost completely destroyed, however by 1956 the theatre was completely restructured using the original design. The sections that were restructured were left bare so as to highlight the extent of the damage.
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