Pesaro Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
...and gave it to Lorenzo de' Medici ( 1516 ). After the pope's death, Francesco Maria resumed possession of his States and began the new Roveresque dynasty that lasted until 1631 , when Pesaro became part of the Papal States. D. Trebbi , Pesaro: storia dei sobborghi e dei castelli , Pesaro, 1988–1991. D. Trebbi , B. Ciampichetti , Pesaro. Storia di una città , Pesaro, 1984. Paolo...
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Pentapolis Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
...The term “Pentapolis” (union of five towns) originally designated Palestine at the time of Abraham (Wis 10, 6). In Byzantine Italy (6th-8th cc.), the capital of the Pentapolis was Rimini. This province, which comprised the episcopal towns of the coast ( Pesaro , Fano, Senigallia, Ancona and Numana), was included in a decapolis on which depended Urbino , Fossombrone, Cagli, Iesi, Osimo and Gubbio. A letter of Pope Adrian I ( 775 ) indicates its frontiers: “from Rimini to Gubbio”. Occupied in 752 by the Lombards , it was included in ...
Malatesta family Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
...family Leading family of the area between the Italian regions of Romagna and the Marche between the 13th and 15th centuries. It developed *lordships over an area comprising Rimini, Cesena, and Pesaro that belonged to the *Papal States , so that the Malatesta had to acquire papal authorization in order to legitimize their rule. In addition, numerous members of the Malatesta were also renowned captains of *mercenary companies . The founder of the dynasty was Malatesta da Verrucchio (d. 1312 ), the first to dominate Rimini, which remained the...
Malatesta family Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
...quickly divided into various branches, each holding a signoria and sometimes belonging to different factions. In the second half of the 13th c., the Malatesta also extended their rule over Cesena, other lands in Romagna and some cities on the Adriatic coast of the Marches ( Pesaro , Fano, Senigallia), thanks largely to Malatesta II da Verrucchio , mentioned by Dante (“il Mastin vecchio”, Inferno XXVII) together with his son Malatestino dall'Occhio (“il Mastin nuovo”). Malatestino succeeded his father and defeated the Malatesta of Sogliano, allied to...
Pentapolis Reference library
Thomas S. Brown and R. Bruce Hitchner
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
...river Marecchia north of Rimini to the river Musone south of Osimo; in the west its probable boundary was the Apennine watershed, although it included part of the road corridor south to Rome and at times Perugia. Its name appears to derive from its two groups of cities: Rimini, Pesaro, Fano, Senigallia, and Ancona in the north; Urbino, Fossombrone, Iesi, Cagli, and Gubbio in the south. Hence, references occur to two provinces (Pentapolis maritima and Pentapolis annonaria ) and to Decapolis. Its social and political institutions were closely linked to...
Mariotto di Nardo (1394–1424) Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
... (Berlin, Kupferstichkab.). In 1400 Mariotto may have accompanied Lorenzo Ghiberti ( 1378–1455 ) to Pesaro, possibly at the request of Pandolfo Malatesta, the ruler of the city. Ghiberti mentioned the journey in his Commentarii but failed to give the name of his companion. However, the hypothesis that it was Mariotto (Salmi) is substantiated by the existence in Pesaro of a triptych of the Virgin and Child with SS Michael and Francis (Pesaro, Mus. Civ.), dated 1400, by Mariotto. A large number of securely attributed works by Mariotto survive. These...
Jacobello del Fiore (1400) Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
...as 1400 , but his earliest documented works were all destined for places on the Adriatic coast. In 1401 he was in Pesaro, where he painted an altarpiece for the church of S Cassiano. This was followed in 1407 by the triptych with the Madonna of Mercy in the centre for Montegranaro, outside Pesaro; its inscription reads in venezia and it must have been sent from Venice to the church for which it was commissioned. A third picture for Pesaro, an altarpiece of 1409 , has also been documented. Of these three works, only the second can be identified with...
Niccolò di Pietro (1394–1430)) Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
...and this influence is revealed, for example, in the childlike innocence and grace of his scenes from the Life of St Augustine (Rome, Pin. Vaticana) and in the luminous pallor of the faces and pathetic gestural elegance of SS Nicholas of Tolentino, Lawrence, Paul, and Peter (Pesaro, Mus. Civ.), St John the Baptist (Chicago, IL, A. Inst.), and St Bonaventure (Saint-Lô, Mus. B.-A.), all probably once part of a single work. In his most important work, the panel depicting St Ursula and Her Companions (New York, Met.), the outlines are even more refined...
Bonanus of Pisa (fl c. 1179–86) Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
...left-hand corner of the panel depicting the Journey of the Magi , a small frieze representing the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise is very close both stylistically and iconographically to such examples of this subject in ivory as the 11th- or 12th-century casket in Pesaro (Bib. & Mus. Oliveriani). The source material for the themes Bonanus treats is transformed by the artist’s strong sense of plastic form and compositional pattern, producing a style of great clarity and directness, deftly adjusted to the requirements of the narrative. Figures are...
Giambono (1400) Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
...showing underdrawing] N. Land : Michele Giambono (diss., Charlottesville, U. VA, 1974) N. Land : ‘Michele Giambono’s Coronation of the Virgin for S Agnese in Venice: A New Proposal’, Burl. Mag. , cxix (1977), pp. 167–74 [discusses drawing after lost original] C. Pesaro : ‘Per un catalogo di Michele Giambono’, Atti Ist. Ven. Sci., Lett. & A. , cxxxvi (1977–8), p. 29 [surveys all documents] N. Land : ‘Two Panels by Michele Giambono and Some Observations on St Francis and the Man of Sorrows in Fifteenth-century Venetian Painting’, Stud. Iconog....
Piacenza Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
...2005) D. F. Glass : The Sculpture of Reform in North Italy, ca. 1095–1130: History and Patronage of Romanesque Façades (Farnham and Burlington, VT, 2010) C. M. Rosenberg , ed.: The Northern Court Cities of Italy: Milan, Parma, Piacenza, Mantua, Ferrara, Bologna, Urbino, Pesaro, and Rimini (Cambridge,...
Rimini Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
...scritture in Archivio Segreto Vaticano (Cesena, 2009) A. Paolucci , ed.: Il Tempio Malatestiano a Rimini: The Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini (Modena, 2010) C. M. Rosenberg , ed.: The Northern Court Cities of Italy: Milan, Parma, Piacenza, Mantua, Ferrara, Bologna, Urbino, Pesaro, and Rimini (Cambridge, 2010) ...
Borgia Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
...ambitions for (3) Cesare focused on the Church and the accumulation of wealth, property, and titles, Alexander concentrated on securing for Lucrezia a series of advantageous marriages. After several aborted betrothals, in 1493 she married Giovanni Sforza ( d 1510), ruler of Pesaro, in order to consolidate an alliance between the Borgias and the Sforzas of Milan. When this alliance was no longer politically expedient, Lucrezia obtained a divorce (1497) on grounds of non-consummation and subsequently (1498) married Alfonso, Duca di Bisceglie, illegitimate...
Paolo Veneziano (fl 1333–58) Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
...stylized Roman military dress. Below the central panel are three tiny scenes of the Miracles of St Nicholas of Tolentino , promoting the cult of a much venerated member of the Order of St Augustine. Narrative elements feature more prominently in some earlier predella panels (Pesaro, Mus. Civ.) with compositions based on the top row of Giotto’s Arena Chapel frescoes. Paolo’s love of concave gables and architectural parallelograms appears clearly in these designs. Similar motifs reappear in the more widely spaced narratives of the St Lucy polyptych (Krk,...
Jewish books and illustration Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
...the text: scenes of healing and of lessons in medicine, plants and animals used in compounding remedies, even allegorical figures from the liberal arts and the signs of the zodiac. Several versions of the Siddur (pl. Siddurim), a compendium of ritual prayers, were produced in Pesaro in the 1480s (e.g. Budapest, Lib. Hung. Acad. Sci., MS. 380). The floral borders were spangled with little medallions showing scenes of ritual and family ceremonies, such as circumcision, marriage, and mourning. In some cases, in spite of traditional gestures and attitudes, the...
