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Showing posts with label Pietro Bembo. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Pietro Bembo. Show all posts

10 July 2019

Caterina Cornaro – Queen of Cyprus

Monarch lived out her last years in 'sweet idleness' Titian's portrait of Caterina Cornaro, painted in around 1452 The l...

6 February 2019

Girolamo Benivieni – poet

Follower of Plato, Dante and Savonarola Girolamo Benivieni, pictured as an old man in a painting attributed to Ridolfo Ghirlandaio T...

30 November 2017

Veronica Gambara – writer and stateswoman

Politically astute poet wrote an ode to Emperor Charles V Veronica Gambara, as portrayed by Antonio Allegri, known as Il Correggio ...

27 November 2016

Jacopo Sansovino – architect

Death of the designer praised by Palladio A portrait of Sansovino by Tintoretto, currently housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence ...

28 June 2016

Giovanni della Casa - advocate of good manners

Bishop and poet remembered for his manual on etiquette A portrait of Giovanni della Casa by the artist Jacopo Pontorno Giovanni del...

20 May 2016

Pietro Bembo – poet and scholar

Lucrezia’s lover helped with the development of modern Italian Titian's portrait of Pietro Bembo, painted in around 1540, when...

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