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Showing posts with label Pope Paul V. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pope Paul V. Show all posts
1 September 2023

Scipione Borghese – Cardinal and art collector

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Pope’s nephew used position to acquire wealth to buy art Ottavio Leoni's portrait of Cardinal Scipione Borghese Cardinal Scipione Borghe...
4 November 2018

Guido Reni – painter

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Bolognese artist who idealised Raphael Guido Reni: a self-portrait executed in about 1603, currently in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome ...
28 May 2018

Caravaggio and a death in Campo Marzio

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Hot-tempered artist killed man in Rome in row over a woman Caravaggio was a brilliant painter but had a reputation for drunken violenc...
15 January 2018

Paolo Sarpi – writer and statesman

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Patriotic Venetian who the Pope wanted dead Paolo Sarpi was an outspoken critic of the Catholic Church Historian, scientist, writ...
30 November 2016

Simonetta Stefanelli – actress

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Godfather star now designs bags and shoes Simonetta Stefanelli, in a scene from Dino Risi's 1971 movie, In the Name of the Italian...
2 October 2016

Saint Charles Borromeo

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Great reformer earned appreciation after his death This painting of Charles Borromeo is in the St. Hermes Church in Ronse, Belgium C...
21 September 2016

Cigoli – painter and architect

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First artist to paint a realistic moon Cigoli's fresco at the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore shows  the Madonna standing on a po...
9 February 2016

Pope Gregory XV

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Legally-trained pontiff was against witchcraft and for secret ballots Gian Lorenzo Bernini's marble bust of Gregory XV, which he s...