Pier francesco fiorentino biography of michael jackson
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Praised for her “megawatt charisma” (The Independent) and winner of the John Christie Award, Fiona Kimm has performed throughout the UK, Europe and North amerika in an extensive operatic, oratorio and concert repertoire.
She has sung for companies including The Royal musikdrama, London, English National musikdrama, English Touring Opera, Garsington Opera at Wormsley, Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Operas, The Grange Festival, Longborough Festival musikdrama, Music Theatre Wales, musikdrama Holland Park, Opera North, Scottish musikdrama, the Canadian Opera Company, Oper Frankfurt, the Nederlandse Reisopera, musikdrama Zuid, the Sao Carlo, Lisbon, and the Abo Svenska Teater.
Her repertoire has included Mrs Herring Albert Herring, Mrs Sedley Peter Grimes, Rosa Mamai L’Arlesiana, Mrs Bentson Lakmé, Contessa di Coigny- Madelon Andrea Chénier, Giglietta Isabeau, Orfeo Orfeo ed Euridice, Jezibaba Rusalka, Julie Showboat, Kabanicha Katya Kabanova, Arnalta The Coronation of Poppea, Ericlea I • WITH AN INDEX TO THEIR WORKS BY BERNHARD BERENSON AUTHOR OF “VENETIAN PAINTERS OF THE RENAISSANCE,” “LORENZO LOTTO,” “CENTRAL ITALIAN PAINTERS OF THE RENAISSANCE” THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS COPYRIGHT, 1896 COPYRIGHT, 1909 Made in the United States of America Years have passed since the second edition of this book. But as most of this time has been taken up with the writing of my “Drawings of the Florentine Painters,” it has, in a sense, been spent in preparing me to make this new edition. Indeed, it is to that bigger work that I must refer the student who may wish to have the reasons for some of my attributions. There, for inst •THE FLORENTINE PAINTERS OF THE RENAISSANCE
From the Painting, possibly by Verrocchio, in the Poldi Museum at Milan.
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(For revised edition)iiiPREFACE TO THIRD EDITION
Franciabigio
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Francesco di Cristofano, known as Franciabigio, was born on 30 January 1484, the son of a Milanese linen weaver living in Florence. The pseudonym ‘El Bigio’ derives from the grey habit he wore as a member of the Confraternity of St Job. Vasari says that he was briefly a pupil of Mariotto Albertinelli. By 1504, at the age of twenty, he was already an independent painter, paying dues to the painters’ Company of St Luke, and in November 1506 he was paid for painting a Pietàand some coats-of-arms beneath the high altar of the church of San Pancrazio near his family home. Not long afterwards he started sharing a workshop with Andrea del Sarto, first in the Piazzo del Grano, behind the Palazzo Vecchio, and later in the disused rooms of the Sapienza (‘House of Knowledge’) in the area between the convent of San Marco and the church of the Annunziata. The two artists collaborated on a number of commissions and appear to have influence