Urbino in a sentence

Brown, James I, p. xii Michael Lynch describes how James's positive reputation began immediately after his death when the Bishop of Urbino kissed James's wounds and declared him to be a martyr.

By the first week of March neither side seemed to have ascendancy and the Bishop of Urbino, the pope's envoy, called for the council to pursue a peaceful outcome.

Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends.

Ettlinger & Ettlinger:19 His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino.

Federico allowed a small Jewish community to live in Urbino.

In 1508, Francesco Maria inherited the duchy thereby starting the line of Rovere Dukes of Urbino.

In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters.

It has been suggested that the subject of the main panel, on which Duke Frederick of Montefeltro of Urbino appears in the background conversing with an Asian, is related to the antisemitic intention of the predella.

On 28 April, he was able to receive the Duke of Urbino in audience, and on 29 April, the Duke of Ferrara.

Other promotions were for political or family considerations or to secure money for the war against Urbino.

Oxford Art Online In 1465, Uccello was in Urbino with his son Donato, where he was engaged until 1469, working for the Confraternity of Corpus Domini, a brotherhood of laymen.

Principles The book is organized as a series of fictional conversations that occur between the courtiers of the Duke of Urbino in 1507 (when Castiglione was in fact part of the Duke's Court).

The bare facts are that on 28 July an anonymous avviso (private newsletter) from Rome to the ducal court of Urbino reported that Caravaggio was dead.

The Duke of Urbino was a shrewd military commander, who generously spent money on the patronage of art.

They were ethnic Albanians who originally moved to Urbino from the region of Malësi e Madhe in Albania.

This chapel holds the two monumental tombs of Lorenzo and Giulano's less known namesakes, Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, and Giuliano, Duke of Nemours.

U-41 was in the process of sinking SS Urbino with gunfire when Baralong arrived on the scene, flying an American flag.

Ultimately, however, Lorenzo was confirmed as the new duke of Urbino.

War of Urbino Leo had intended his younger brother Giuliano and his nephew Lorenzo for brilliant secular careers.

Watt, Medieval Church Councils, pp. 154–5 Even in the midst of the Basel general council, Pope Eugenius instructed his legate, Bishop Antonio Altan of Urbino, to meet with James to raise the issue of the king's controversial anti-barratry laws of 1426.