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This project is a beginning introduction study of knights in genealogy. The mission is to help form a foundation of such membership and understanding of the family lines source for below: A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch or other political leader for service to the monarch or country, especially in a military capacity. Historically, in Europe, knighthood...
Villa Godi in Lugo di Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy The aim of the project is to connect the villa to its owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on it. Please, join the project and add profiles. Villa Godi is a patrician villa in Lugo di Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy. It was one of the first projects by Andrea Palladio , as attested in his monograph...
The House of Medici or Famiglia de' Medici was a political dynasty, banking family and later royal house that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the late 14th century. The family originated in the Mugello region of the Tuscan countryside, gradually rising until they were able to found the Medici Bank. The bank was the largest in Europe du...
Villa Valmarana Scagnolari Zen (Lisiera) in Lisiera, Bolzano Vicentino, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy The aim of the project is to connect the villa to its owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on it. Please, join the project and add profiles. The Villa Valmarana (also known as Valmarana Scagnolari Zen) is a Renaissance villa situated in Lisiera, a locality o...
=Villa Cornaro Gable====in Piombino Dese, Padua, Veneto, Italy===The aim of the project is to connect the villa to its owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on it. Please, join the project and add profiles. Villa Cornaro is a patrician villa in Piombino Dese, about 30 km northwest of Venice, Italy. It was designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea...
=Villa Emo====in Fanzolo, Vedelago, Treviso, Veneto, Italy===The aim of the project is to connect the villa to its owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on it. Please, join the project and add profiles. Villa Emo is one of the many Palladian creations conceived by the great architect Andrea Palladio. It is a patrician villa located in the Veneto region of n...
Transitional period cultural, religious and political luminaries (c1400 - 1600).=== Project Profiles : >As medieval intuitions crumble, radical changes begin to take place in European society. The economy, politics, culture, and religion all undergo a kind of transformation that shapes the development of Western Civilization as it enters the “modern” era. Interestingly, the birth of modern soci...
Palladian villas of the Veneto, Italy The aim of the villa projects is to connect the villas to their owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on the villas. Please, add profiles to the respective villas below. If a project does not yet exist, you may start it or start a discussion. The Palladian villas of the Veneto are villas designed by architect Andre...
Villa Pojana in Poiana Maggiore, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy The aim of the project is to connect the villa to its owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on it. Please, join the project and add profiles. Villa Pojana or Poiana, is a patrician villa in Pojana Maggiore, a town of the Province of Vicenza in the Veneto region of Italy. It was designed by the Rena...
( MOVE BACK TO THE MAIN PAGE - VERDI GALLERY ) Historical persons (HP) behind the opera characters Performers and collaborators of the first Premieres Performers most liked by Giuseppe Verdi and his wife Giuseppina Strepponi Greatest performers after Verdi's times Persons are sorted by roles and birth years. Please, add profiles only to the main page, "Verdi Gallery". I du...
=Villa Trissino (Cricoli)====in Cricoli, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy===The aim of the project is to connect the villa to its owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on it. Please, join the project and add profiles. The Villa Trissino is a patrician villa, which belonged to Gian Giorgio Trissino, located at Cricoli, just outside the center of Vicenza, in northern I...
=Villa Valmarana Bresson (Vigardolo)====in Vigardolo, Monticello Conte Otto, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy===The aim of the project is to connect the villa to its owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on it. Please, join the project and add profiles. Villa Valmarana (also known as Valmarana Bressan) is a patrician villa at Vigardolo, Monticello Conte Otto, in the p...
Villa Forni Cerato====in Montecchio Precalcino, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy===The aim of the project is to connect the villa to its owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on it. Please, join the project and add profiles. The Villa Forni Cerato is a 16th-century villa in Montecchio Precalcino, Province of Vicenza, northern Italy. Its design is attributed to Andrea...
Villa Saraceno====in Agugliaro, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy===The aim of the project is to connect the villa to its owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on it. Please, join the project and add profiles. Villa Saraceno is a Palladian Villa in Agugliaro, Province of Vicenza, northern Italy. It was commissioned by the patrician Saraceno family.===Architectural sign...
=Villa Zeno====in Donegal, Cessalto, Treviso, Veneto, Italy===The aim of the project is to connect the villa to its owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on it. Please, join the project and add profiles. Villa Zeno is a patrician villa at Cessalto, Veneto, northern Italy, and is the most easterly villa designed by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The vi...
Villa Piovene====in Lonedo, Lugo Vicentino, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy===The aim of the project is to connect the villa to its owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on it. Please, join the project and add profiles. Villa Piovene is a Palladian villa built in Lonedo di Lugo, province of Vicenza, northern Italy. The building was commissioned in the 16th century fo...
Villa Gazzotti Grimani====in Bertesina, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy===The aim of the project is to connect the villa to its owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on it. Please, join the project and add profiles. The Villa Gazzotti Grimani (1542) is a Renaissance villa, an early work of architect Andrea Palladio, located in the village of Bertesina, near Vicenza in...
Foscari Family project Foscari Family project collects profiles of all descendants of the Foscari, and people with the surname Foscari. Also profiles of close friends and supporters, and people closely related to Foscari's, are welcome. The present Family Head of the House of Foscari is Lorenzo de Medici-Tornaquinci-Foscari . (This project was started Jan 23rd 2019) The Foscari The Foscari...
This project is on History Link Old Masters The great painters from mid 13th century to mid 19th century For great painters from mid 19th Century - see: New and Modern Masters ONLY public profiles , please: • GOTHIC - INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC - PROTO-RENAISSANCE Cimabue (Cenni di Peppi) (1240-1302). Frescos in the Church of S. Francesco in Assisi . Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-...
Villa Pisani, De Lazara Pisani, Ferri De Lazara, Bedeschi Bonetti (Bagnolo) in Bagnolo di Lonigo, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy The aim of the project is to connect the villa to its owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on it. Please, join the project and add profiles. The Villa Pisani is a patrician villa designed by Andrea Palladio, located in Bagnolo, a haml...
=Villa Pisani (Montagnana)====in Montagnana, Padua, Veneto, Italy===The aim of the project is to connect the villa to its owners, families, important quests, and people who have had an influence on it. Please, join the project and add profiles. The Villa Pisani is a patrician villa outside the city walls of Montagnana, Veneto, northern Italy.===Architecture===It was designed by Andrea Pallad...
This project was finally inspired by the book: Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968 [Paperback] , Allon Schoener (Editor). " Harlem on My Mind provoked outrage in 1969. The issues it raised are no less alive today."—The New York Times, 1995."Remains one of the richest and most comprehensive records of the history of the African American in the twentieth century."—from...
Hertford House - The Wallace Collection, London, England= Herford House - The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries.It was established in 1897 from the private c...
Female Artists through the centuries= Female artists have been involved in making art in most times and places. Often certain media are associated with women, particularly textile arts; however, these gender roles in art change in different cultures and communities. Many art forms dominated by women have been historically dismissed from the art historical canon as craft, as opposed to fine art....