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A garniture of an ormolu clock and candelabra at the Palace of Versailles in France. Ormolu (/ ˈɔːrməˌluː /; from French or moulu 'ground/pounded gold') is the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold – mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way. The mercury is driven off in a kiln ...
According to Vasari, his last work was the painted wooden statue of St. Mary Magdalene, now in Santa Trinita, left unfinished and completed by Benedetto da Maiano after Desiderio's death. Desiderio da Settignano died in Florence in 1464. The most famous of his pupils was Simone Ferrucci. Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Desiderio da ...
St Mark's Clocktower. The Clock Tower in Venice is an early Renaissance building on the north side of the Piazza San Marco, at the entrance to the Merceria. It comprises a tower, which contains the clock, and lower buildings on each side. It adjoins the eastern end of the Procuratie Vecchie. Both the tower and the clock date from the last ...
The Astrarium of Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio was a complex astronomical clock built between 1348 and 1364 in Padova, Italy, by the doctor and clock-maker Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio. The Astrarium had seven faces and 107 moving gears; it showed the positions of the sun, the moon and the five planets then known, as well as religious feast days.
Blackamoor (decorative arts) Pair of Italian figures in painted wood, 18th century. "Moor with Emerald Cluster" by Balthasar Permoser in the collection of the Grünes Gewölbe. Blackamoor is a type of figure and visual trope in European decorative art, typically found in works from the Early Modern period, depicting a man of sub-Saharan African ...
1500. Cremona, Duchy of Milan. Died. 1585 (aged 85) Toledo, Spain. Resting place. Toledo, Spain. Gianello della Torre (c. 1500 – 13 June 1585) was an Italian clockmaker, engineer and mathematician. He was born in Cremona.
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