The San Giorgio Monastery (St. George Monastery) is a Benedictine monastery in Venice, Italy, located on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. It stands...
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George; thus it was designated as San Giorgio Maggiore to be distinguished from San Giorgio in Alga. The San Giorgio Monastery was established in 982, when...
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decorate the far wall of the monastery's new refectory, designed by the architect Andrea Palladio, at the San Giorgio Monastery, on the eponymous island....
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di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, a confraternity house in Venice Other buildings with the name: San Giorgio Monastery, Venice Palazzo San Giorgio, Genoa...
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later. After a serious illness, he was sent to the Benedictine San Giorgio Monastery at the age of five. He received excellent monastic education and...
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include: Eusebio da San Giorgio, Italian painter Francesco di Giorgio, Italian painter Francesco Giorgio, Italian writer Frank Di Giorgio, Canadian city councillor...
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Pope Pius VII (redirect from Giorgio Barnaba Luigi Chiaramonti)
elect his successor met on 30 November 1799 in the Benedictine San Giorgio Monastery in Venice. There were three main candidates, two of whom proved...
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San Giorgio Maggiore (San Zorzi Mazor in Venetian) is a 16th-century Benedictine church on the island of the same name in Venice, northern Italy, designed...
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than one version. It forms part of a series of views of the monastery-island of San Giorgio Maggiore. This series is in turn part of a larger series of...
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the city with the greatest number of cardinals. The Benedictine San Giorgio Monastery in Venice was chosen as the location for the conclave, and the voting...
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opening sequence of the series with dancing nuns was filmed inside San Giorgio Monastery in Venice. The series had its world premiere on 1 September 2019...
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Cini Foundation (redirect from Giorgio Cini Foundation)
of Giorgio Cini, his son who died in a airplane accident near Cannes in August 1949. The Foundation is located in the former San Giorgio Monastery on...
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San Servolo ['sɛrvolo] is an Italian island in the Venetian Lagoon, to the southeast of San Giorgio Maggiore. Earlier housing a monastery of Benedictine...
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John Morosini (category Founders of Christian monasteries)
Doge, Tribuno Memmo, that the island of San Giorgio Maggiore be granted to him for the establishment of a monastery there. Memmo granted his request and...
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The 1799–1800 papal conclave was held in San Giorgio Monastery in Venice, the last papal election site outside of Rome....
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San Giorgio in Velabro is a church in Rome, Italy, dedicated to St. George. The church is located next to the Arch of Janus in the rione of Ripa in the...
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List of abbeys and priories (category Lists of Christian monasteries)
Klausen Sacra di San Michele, Val di Susa Sacro Convento, Assisi San Clemente Abbey, Castiglione a Casauria San Giorgio Monastery, Venice San Giovanni degli...
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San Giorgio in Braida is a Roman Catholic church in Verona, region of Veneto, Italy. A church titled San Giacomo in Braida, was located in Cremona, and...
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San Giorgio in Alga (English: "St. George in the seaweed") is an island of the Venetian lagoon, northern Italy, lying between the Giudecca and Fusina...
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the San Giorgio Monastery (1560–1562). His style was rather severe compared with the traditional lavishness of Venetian Renaissance architecture. San Georgio...
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San Giorgio Morgeto (Calabrian: San Giorgiu Morgetu or simply San Giorgi) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian...
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Michelozzo (section San Marco)
patron. Vasari also claimed that Michelozzo built the library of San Giorgio Monastery in 1434 for Cosimo, though this claim contradicts the original description...
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Camaldolese monk, writer, and poet in Venice; and Benedictine abbot of San Giorgio Monastery Ante Kalogjera (b. 1908 - d. 1981): Croatian Lawyer posthumously...
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VIII. November 30 – 1799–1800 Papal conclave opens in Venice at San Giorgio Monastery. December 3 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian...
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The Canons Regular of San Giorgio in Alga (Congregatio Canonicorum Sancti Georgii in Alga Venetiarum) were a congregation of canons regular which was...
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island-monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. They were begun in 1908 during the artist's only visit to the city. One of the best known is San Giorgio...
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San Giorgio a Cremano is a primarily residential town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in Italy. It is located on the foothills of Mount...
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Barbara and Agnes. It was commissioned in 1540 by the canons of the San Giorgio Monastery and is still in its original location. It was first recorded in...
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blocks south from the Palazzo dei Normanni, adjacent to the church of San Giorgio in Kemonia. While the interior is virtually devoid of decoration or furnishings...
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also had ancient small parish churches of San Pietro all Orto and San Giorgio alla Nocetta, or later San Giorgio Alamanno. In the 19th-century desires for...
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