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    Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (UK: /bɛərˈniːni/, US: /bərˈ-/; Italian: [ˈdʒan loˈrɛntso berˈniːni]; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 –...
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    with headquarters in Cambiano, Turin, Italy. The company was founded by Battista "Pinin" Farina in 1930. On 14 December 2015, the Indian multinational Mahindra...
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    Galleria Doria Pamphilj (category Via del Corso)
    Corso, however, is by Gabriele Valvassori. Following Camillo's death in 1666, building continued under the auspices of his two sons Giovanni Battista...
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  • intended article. Geovani Giovanni Battista Giovanelli Giovannelli Giovannetti Giovannini "Ma come ci siamo chiamati nel corso dei secoli?". Treccani (in Italian)...
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    studies at the age of 18 years. There he attended the Corso Comune until 1881–1882 and the Corso Speciale of painting from 1882 to 1884. In 1885, he travelled...
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    draughtsman for the architectural plans of Pietro da Cortona, Carlo Rainaldi, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Bernini employed him for nearly a decade in diverse projects...
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    with his wife Olimpia Maidalchini, after his brother, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Pamphili, (future Pope Innocent X), became papal nuncio to the Kingdom...
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    Romagnosi and Giovan Battista Vico, his first works were an article in the Biblioteca Italiana ("Italian Library") entitled "Mente di Gian Domenico Romagnosi"...
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    Truth Unveiled by Time (Bernini) (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Borghese Collection)
    Truth Unveiled by Time is a marble sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of the foremost sculptors of the Italian Baroque. Executed between...
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    dedicated to Our Lady of Victories in Rome, Italy, famously the home of Gian Lorenzo Bernini‘s masterpiece the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. The church is...
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    Circonvallazione a Monte that includes Corso Firenze, Corso Paganini, Corso Magenta, Via Solferino, and Corso Armellini. San Lorenzo cathedral has a splendid...
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  • Fabio (16 January 2016). "Atalanta–Inter, la rivalità iniziò con l'auto di Corso". Corriere della Sera Bergamo (in Italian). Retrieved 13 August 2021. "Lazio...
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    Provisioners, and chancellor of Milan under Gian Galeazzo Visconti. Andreolo Arese (de Arisiis), son of Antoniolo, was Gian Galeazzo Visconti's secretary from...
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    evolution of the Corinthian order as previously suggested by Leon Battista Alberti. Leon Battista Alberti in his De re aedificatoria (English: On the Art of...
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    Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini)
    church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome. It was designed and carved by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the leading sculptor of his day, who also designed the setting...
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    building a bell tower, and other churches were built, such as San Francesco al Corso, Santa Maria della Civitella, San Domenico and Sant'Agostino. In the 15th...
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    his election, he was crowned on 18 April 1655 by the Cardinal Protodeacon Gian Giacomo Teodoro Trivulzio before taking possession of the Archbasilica of...
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    in royal outfits. In 1873 a hydrochronometer on the 1867 design of Gian Battista Embriaco, O.P. inventor and professor of the Roman College of St. Thomas...
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    Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini)
    fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Innocent X whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili...
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    than a privilege. A minority of other Sardinian notables, like Giovanni Battista Tuveri and Federico Fenu, were not in favour of the idea for fear that...
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    highboys, by Philip Johnson, 1981-1984 Broken pediment of San Marcello al Corso, Rome, by Carlo Fontana, 1682–1683 Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Yamoussoukro...
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    St. Peter's Square (category Gian Lorenzo Bernini buildings)
    obelisk, an ancient Egyptian obelisk erected at the current site in 1586. Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed the square almost 100 years later, including the...
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    Elephant and Obelisk (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini)
    statue of an elephant carrying an obelisk, designed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was unveiled in 1667 in the Piazza della Minerva in Rome...
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    portico on the Corso Cavour Palazzo Cantagilli (15th century), Palazzo Morotti (17th century) and Palazzo Roncalli (16th century) on the Corso Cavour Church...
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    to Rome in 1636 to be used as a reference work for the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini to create a marble bust of Charles I. Pope Urban VIII sent...
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    Santa Maria del Popolo (category Gian Lorenzo Bernini church buildings)
    city. The church contains works by several famous artists, such as Raphael, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Caravaggio, Alessandro Algardi, Pinturicchio, Andrea Bregno...
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    1527 – 20 January 1537) Girolamo Ghinucci, (25 January 1537 – 3 July 1541) Gian Pietro Carafa, (6 July 1541 – 24 September 1543) Rodolfo Pio, (24 September...
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    November 2024. "Parco Ausa". Ecomuseo Rimini. Retrieved 14 March 2022. Nel corso della metà del secolo scorso "l'Ausa, che si stava trasformando sempre di...
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    Palace') is the seat of the Museum of Sacred Art. It has a painting by Gian Battista Corradini of the Madonna del Rosario (1614). Santa Croce ('Holy Cross'):...
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    Domenico Fontana (the main facade on the Piazza) and Carlo Maderno, and by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Clement XII. Gardens were conceived by Maderno....
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