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    The Bust of Cardinal Richelieu is a marble sculpture by the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, situated at the Louvre in Paris. Richelieu had hoped...
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    du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (French: [aʁmɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ dy plɛsi]; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic...
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    Portrait of Cardinal de Richelieu is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Philippe de Champaigne, completed c. 1642. The portrait shows Cardinal de Richelieu...
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    Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu is a portrait painting by the Flemish-born French painter Philippe de Champaigne, Richelieu's favourite portraitist. It...
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    services to Cardinal Richelieu and moved to Paris in 1640. After the death of Richelieu in 1642, Mazarin took his place as first minister of Louis XIII...
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  • University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226538525. nationalgalleries (2019). "Portrait Bust of Monsignor Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo, Archbishop of Pisa (1547...
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    Bargello, Florence Bust of Thomas Baker (1638) Marble, height 82 cm (32 in), Victoria and Albert Museum, London Bust of Cardinal Richelieu (1640–41) Marble...
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    Medusa (Bernini) (category Busts by Gian Lorenzo Bernini)
    The bust was gradually cleaned and its surface was restored. Medusa was shown at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow in May, 2011, as part of the...
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    Palais-Royal (redirect from Palais-Cardinal)
    Palais-Cardinal, it was built for Cardinal Richelieu from about 1633 to 1639 by architect Jacques Lemercier. Richelieu bequeathed it to Louis XIII, before...
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    Louvre (redirect from Richelieu Wing)
    and Resurrection of Christ. The 17th and 18th centuries are represented by Gian Lorenzo Bernini's 1640–1 Bust of Cardinal Richelieu, Étienne Maurice Falconet's...
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    Champaigne's Triple portrait of Cardinal de Richelieu, c. 1642. Many copies of the work were made, possibly by supporters of the royal House of Stuart, including...
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    Château de Richelieu was an enormous 17th-century château (manor house) built by the French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642)...
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    Sorbonne (1675-1694) Detail of the tomb of Cardinal Richelieu, Chapel of the Sorbonne, (1675-1694) Bust of Louis XIV, Musée Saint-Loup, Troyes Pluto Abducting...
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    Pope Gregory XV (category Roman Catholic archbishops of Bologna)
    and his cousin Marcantonio Gozzadini as cardinals; he also elevated the noted Armand Jean Richelieu as a cardinal. On 12 March 1622, the pope canonized...
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    leading a conspiracy against his rival and patron Cardinal Richelieu, who governed France for 18 years Cardinal Mazarin, governed France for almost 20 years...
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    of Palestrina. Until his nomination to the order of cardinal-bishops, Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu had entrusted him with the post of Cardinal protector...
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    Claude Ramey (category Members of the Académie des beaux-arts)
    monumental statue of Cardinal Richelieu which was installed at Richelieu, Indre-et-Loire. Ramey died in Paris in June 1838. He was the father of Étienne-Jules...
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    Costanza Piccolomini Bonarelli (category House of Piccolomini)
    noble family. She was the mistress of the sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who in the 1630s created a bust of her, now exhibited at the Bargello...
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    Jean-Jacques Caffieri (category French people of Italian descent)
    portrait busts, in terracotta or marble: his bust of Madame du Barry is at the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. He made a name with his busts of Pierre...
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    Louis XIII Crowned by Victory (category Cultural depictions of Cardinal Richelieu)
    commissioned by Cardinal Richelieu, it shows Louis XIII, King of France, crowned by a personification of Victory to mark his forces' victory in the Siege of La Rochelle...
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    regency and to sue for peace. Giulio Mazzarino, who had succeeded Richelieu as Cardinal of France, acted as mediator in the peace conferences between Marie...
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    Merenda; both were undertaken by Bernini's workshop and commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Barberini to commend the ecclesiastical work done by Valtrini...
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    complexes for soldiers in case of bombing, wheat mills and bread ovens. A column, which incorporates the bust of Richelieu, was also erected in the courtyard...
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    administration that his contemporary, Cardinal Richelieu, had introduced in France. Under the immense pressures of the Thirty Years' War, Olivares attempted...
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    Jean Turcan (category Recipients of the Legion of Honour)
    commissions now began to come Turcan's way, including statues of Cardinal de Richelieu (1880) and the historian Jules Michelet (1882) for the Hotel de...
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    Pierre Séguier (category Members of the Académie Française)
    became keeper of the seals under Richelieu, he proceeded to bully and humiliate the parlement in his turn. He became allied with the cardinal's family by...
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    make a 13-year-old member of his family a cardinal and subsidize a nephew from the papal treasury. By means of the papal bull of 1570, Regnans in Excelsis...
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    Madame du Barry (category Mistresses of Louis XV)
    proper sponsor. For this, the Duke of Richelieu eventually found Madame de Béarn, who was bribed by the settlement of her huge gambling debts. On the first...
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    Jean-Pierre Cortot (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    Joconde: Bust of Charles Dupaty, French Ministry of Culture. (in French) "Ganymède". Retrieved 15 March 2014. Base Joconde: Ganymède, French Ministry of Culture...
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    the royal court of England and the House of Lorraine. She and her intrigues were soon discovered by the prime minister, Cardinal Richelieu. Her correspondence...
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