Pope Urban VIII (Latin: Urbanus VIII; Italian: Urbano VIII; baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644), born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic...

repeating that prophecy to Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (the future Pope Urban VIII), as Domenico Bernini reports in his biography of his father. In 1606...

Chief World Systems (1632), which appeared to attack and ridicule Pope Urban VIII, thus alienating both the Pope and the Jesuits, who had both strongly...

been the favourite artist of the previous and profligate Barberini pope, Urban VIII. Without papal patronage, the services of Bernini's studio were therefore...

beatification, the right of which they had certainly possessed hitherto, Pope Urban VIII issued the Apostolic letter Caelestis Hierusalem cives of 5 July 1634...

Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667–1740) and the Vatican tomb of Pope Alexander VIII. Diane Publishing. ISBN 978-0-87169-252-8. Reardon, 2004, p. 218. Reardon...

XXIII, St. Pius X, Innocent VIII, Leo XI, Innocent XI, Pius VII, Pius VIII, Alexander VII, Alexander VIII, Paul III, Urban VIII, Clement X, Clement XIII...

ideas after the trial. The affair was complex since very early on Pope Urban VIII had been a patron to Galileo and had given him permission to publish on...

Cardinal Maffeo Barberini to the papal throne in 1623, as Pope Urban VIII. Their urban palace, the Palazzo Barberini, completed in 1633 by Bernini, today...

Under its canopy is the high altar of the basilica. Commissioned by Pope Urban VIII, the work began in 1623 and ended in 1634. The baldachin acts as a visual...

Proserpina, Apollo and Daphne has a cartouche with a moral aphorism by Pope Urban VIII. Attributing Christian moral value to a pagan subject was a way of justifying...

madre, figlia del tuo figlio" ("Virgin mother, daughter of your son"). Urban VIII granted the venerated Marian image a decree of canonical coronation via...

saints. Pope Lucius III canonized four saints. Pope Urban III did not canonize any saints. Pope Gregory VIII did not canonize any saints. Pope Clement III canonized...

Pope Urban VI, pope 1378–1389 Pope Urban VII, pope 1590, had the shortest recognized papal reign Pope Urban VIII, pope 1623–1644 This disambiguation...

Pope Urban VIII (r. 1623–1644) created seventy-four new cardinals in eight consistories. Francesco Barberini, nephew of the Pope – cardinal-deacon of S...

VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII) 16 from France (Pope Sylvester II, Pope Stephen IX, Pope Nicholas II, Pope Urban II, Pope Callistus II, Pope Urban IV, Pope...

In 1623, Galileo's friend Maffeo Barberini was elected as Pope Urban VIII. Urban VIII was an intellectual and patron of the arts and architecture, who...

was also honoured in this monument. Gregory XV was succeeded by Pope Urban VIII. Cardinals created by Gregory XV Ludovisi The dispute eventually led to...

Bernini's friend and protector Maffeo Barberini was elected pope, as Pope Urban VIII. The sculpture shows a scene from the Old Testament First Book of Samuel...

semi-urban site was purchased in 1625 from Alessandro Sforza, Duca di Segni by Maffeo Barberini, of the Barberini family, who became Pope Urban VIII. Three...

papal diplomat to Naples, France, and Spain. Pamphili succeeded Pope Urban VIII (1623–44) on 15 September 1644 as Pope Innocent X, after a contentious...

Cardinals governing a particular church retain that church. In 1630, Pope Urban VIII decreed their title to be Eminence (previously, it had been illustrissimo...

important Augustinians by Simplicien Saint-Martin. Rita was beatified by Pope Urban VIII in 1626. The pope's private secretary, Fausto Poli, had been born some...

post-abdication captivity. Allegations blame his successor, Pope Boniface VIII. Boniface VIII (1294–1303), Was in conflict with Philip IV of France and allegedly...

abutted the Pantheon on the east and were lost. In the early 17th century, Urban VIII Barberini tore away the bronze ceiling of the portico, and replaced the...

throne was a gift from Emperor of the Romans Charles the Bald to Pope John VIII in 875. It has been studied many times over the years, most recently between...

The following Holy Year was proclaimed by Pope Clement VIII in 1600. In 1625, Pope Urban VIII opened the ceremonial doors for the jubilee year. However...

Gonfalonier of the Church; commander of the Papal Army. He was a nephew of Pope Urban VIII and brother of Cardinals Francesco Barberini and Antonio Barberini. Thanks...

Italian composer Gregorio Allegri. It was composed during the reign of Pope Urban VIII, probably during the 1630s, for the exclusive use of the Sistine Chapel...

thirteen members of the congregation, became the next pope as Urban VIII (1623–1644). Under Urban VIII, a central seminary, the Collegium Urbanum, was established...