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    Matthew, also unfinished. In 1939, these were joined by the Palestrina Pietà, discovered in the Barberini chapel in Palestrina, though experts now consider...
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    and Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino. Initially up to five sculptures per tomb were to be carved, but the number was ultimately reduced to three. For...
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    Santa Maria del Fiore behind the Duomo, paid him a salary of six fiorini per month, and allowed him two years to complete the sculpture. When the finished...
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    January 21, 1564, quoted Sistine, 269, n. 35 Clark, 23 Transcript translated per Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine Crawford, Francis Marion: "Salve...
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    Trajan's Column (Italian: Colonna Traiana, Latin: Columna Traiani) is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, that commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's...
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    The Punishment of Tityus Pietà for Vittoria Colonna Epifania Milieu Cecchino dei Bracci Tommaso dei Cavalieri Vittoria Colonna Ascanio Condivi Gherardo...
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    lease for which they pay the Italian government a symbolic fee of 1 euro per month. The Palazzo Farnese houses the great scholarly library amassed by...
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    little courtyard, or little garden": Aldrovandi, Delle Statue antiche, che per tutta Roma, in diversi luoghi, & case si veggono (Venice 1556) Baldriga 2000...
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    original on 2014-06-13. Retrieved 2021-06-22. Giancarlo Gentilini, Proposta per Michelangelo Giovane. Un Crocifisso in legno di tiglio, catalogo della mostra...
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    alle Terme diocleziane (Roma: Coop. tip. Manuzio, 1920). Soprintendenza per i beni ambientali e architettonici del Lazio (edd.), Santa Maria degli Angeli...
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    tempo Michelagnolo dal Papa per Porta Pia d’un disegno, ne fece tre tutti stravaganti e bellissimi, che ‘l papa elesse per porre in opera quello di minore...
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    (1262–1276) Giacomo Colonna (1288–1297) Francesco Napoleone Orsini (administrator 1298–1306) Giacomo Colonna (again) (1306–1318) Pietro Colonna (1318–1326) Luca...
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    19A Medaglie d'Oro, 19B Primavalle, 19C Ottavia, 19D Santa Maria della Pietà, 19E Trionfale, 19F Pineto, 19G Castelluccia, 19H Santa Maria di Galeria...
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    Via della Conciliazione Bruno Contardi; Marica Mercalli; Italy. Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali; Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo (1987)...
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    conclave. The city of Rome was in an uproar upon the death of Pope Martin V (Colonna), whose family had dominated Roman political life for fifteen years, and...
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    Austria (1580–1598) Francisco de Múxica Guzmán de Avila (1599–1606) Ascanio Colonna (1606) Antonio Zapata y Cisneros (1606–1616) Gaspar de Borja y Velasco...
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    Giove Capitolino. Una nuova proposta di lettura", Annali della Fondazione per Il Museo Claudio Faina, 16: 333–372. Richardson, Lawrence (1992). A New Topographical...
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    Renaissance period changed the face of Rome dramatically, with works like the Pietà by Michelangelo and the frescoes of the Borgia Apartments. Rome reached...
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    cruente battaglie e cadde combattendo senz'altro premio sperare che la vittoria e la grandezza della Patria Ignoto il nome – folgora il suo spirito – dovunque...
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    for the construction, as well as the family crest of Pope Pius V. Flavia Colonna. "Il forte San Michele a Ostia. Una piccola opera di architettura militare...
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    Antonietta. "The Palatine." Trans. Luisa Guarneri Hynd. Milano: Electa (Ministero per i Beni e le Actività Culturali Sopraintendenza Archeologica di Roma), 1998...
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    Boncompagni Ludovisi Decorative Arts Museum (Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi per le arti decorative, often abbreviated as the Museo Boncompagni), Rome, is...
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    Santa Maria in Aracoeli hosted the celebrations honoring Marcantonio Colonna after the victorious Battle of Lepanto over the Turkish fleet. Marking...
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    known as the saeculum obscurum. Cardinals Vincenzo Santucci and Carlo Colonna are also buried in the archbasilica. The skull of Saint Peter is also claimed...
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    teams were identified by their colors. Typically, there were seven laps per race. From at least 174 BC, they were counted off using large sculpted eggs...
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    L. (1152–1155) Boso (1155–1165) Graziano da Pisa (1178–1205) Giovanni Colonna (1205–1216) Gil Torres (1216–1254) Giordano Pironti (1262–1269) Benedetto...
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    Appia. The Appia fed the city of Rome with an estimated 73000 m3 of water per day. Its source was "on the vast Lucullus estate, between the seventh and...
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  • Moore 2011: Richard Gere The Rome Film Festival is produced by the Cinema per Roma Foundation, whose president is Laura Delli Colli. The General Manager...
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    96: Around 1860, rent for a large apartment in the ghetto was 30 scudi per month; the rent had remained the same since the reign of Urban VIII. The...
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    AGRIPPAE · MVNERE · PER · VENIT · EX · EA · PECVNIA · QVAM · PRO · SVIS · PARTIBVS · RECEPER · EX · VENDITIONE · ATTALICOR · QVAE · EIS · PER · EDICTVM · AEDILIS...
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