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    Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese (Italian pronunciation: [ʃiˈpjoːne borˈɡeːze; -eːse]; 1 September 1577 – 2 October 1633) was an Italian cardinal, art collector...
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    (1550–1621) Paolo Borghese (1622–1646), he married Olimpia Aldobrandini Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese (1697–1759): cardinal Marcantonio Borghese (1730–1800):...
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    developing sketches by Scipione Borghese himself, who used it as a villa suburbana, a country villa at the edge of Rome. Scipione Borghese was an early patron...
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    Villa Borghese Pinciana ("Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill"), built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese, who used...
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    Cardinal Scipione Borghese are marble portrait sculptures executed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1632. Cardinal Scipione Borghese was the...
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    Junio Valerio Scipione Ghezzo Marcantonio Maria Borghese (6 June 1906 – 26 August 1974), nicknamed The Black Prince, was an Italian Navy commander during...
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    throughout the city and he soon caught the attention of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew to the reigning pope, Paul V, who spoke of the boy genius...
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    Roman art. Cardinal Scipione Borghese also bought widely from leading painters and sculptors of his time, and Scipione Borghese's commissions include...
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    Prince Luigi Marcantonio Francesco Rodolfo Scipione Borghese, commonly known as Scipione Borghese (11 September 1871, Migliarino – 18 November 1927, Florence)...
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    The Rape of Proserpina (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Borghese Collection)
    into the underworld that Pluto carries Proserpina into. Cardinal Scipione Borghese commissioned the sculpture and gave it to the newly appointed Cardinal-nephew...
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    by his assistant Giovanni Vasanzio), developing sketches by Scipione Borghese. Borghese was a maternal nephew of Pope Paul V. He wielded enormous power...
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    at south-west. The Borgheses settled in the area in the 16th century. Under Pope Paul V (1605–1621) and cardinal Scipione Borghese, they expanded into...
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    Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese (20 May 1697 in Rome – 21 June 1759 in Rome) was an Italian cardinal from the Borghese family. He was elevated to cardinal...
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    masterpiece. The casino and the paintings were commissioned by the Cardinal Scipione Borghese, a prominent art patron, and designed by Giorgio Vasanzio and Carlo...
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    David with the Head of Goliath (Caravaggio, Rome) (category Paintings in the Borghese Collection)
    It is housed in the Galleria Borghese, Rome. The painting, which was in the collection of Cardinal Scipione Borghese in 1650, has been dated as early...
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    Borghese and down towards the Tiber, with balconies above the rusticated entrance on the Via di Ripetta. On the death of his uncle, Cardinal Scipione...
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    ten consistories held during his pontificate. He named his nephew Scipione Borghese as a cardinal (continuing the trend of nepotism) and also named Alessandro...
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    David (Bernini) (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Borghese Collection)
    villa of Bernini's patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese – where it still resides today, as part of the Galleria Borghese. It was completed in the course of...
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  • stating who the father is and will become a mistress to the wealthy Scipione Borghese. Soon, she is found murdered by drowning. Ranuccio weeps as Caravaggio...
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    Apollo and Daphne (Bernini) (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Borghese Collection)
    the last of a number of important works commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese from Gian Lorenzo Bernini that helped to define Baroque sculpture...
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  • French surgeon Scipione Ammirato (1531–1601), Italian historian Scipione Barbò Soncino (active by 1570s), Italian jurist Scipione Borghese (1577–1633),...
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    the piece at the behest of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, who became a cardinal in 1605, but it is possible that Borghese acquired it later as it is not mentioned...
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    Archery Contest of Diana and her Nymphs (category Paintings in the Borghese Collection)
    Aldobrandini, but was stolen from him by Cardinal Scipione Borghese. It is now in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, Italy. Domenichino was born Domenico Zampieri...
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    moment of his election, chiefly through the influence of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, at his advanced age (he was 67) and with his weak state of health...
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    Cardinal Scipione Borghese, who included the work in the Borghese Collection and commissioned the mattress. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Scipione's protégé,...
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    art-loving Cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew of the pope, who had the power to grant or withhold pardons. Caravaggio hoped Borghese could mediate a pardon...
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    the French embassy in Peking on 10 June 1907. The winner, Prince Scipione Borghese, arrived in Paris on 10 August 1907. There were forty entrants in...
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    Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Borghese Collection)
    especially the antique ones, eventually caught the attention of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, who loved arts, money and male physical beauty, and who was the most...
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    under the protection of Cardinal Scipione Borghese. In Rome, he worked on various projects for Pope Paul V, another Borghese, including the Pauline Chapel...
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    Stadio Steno Borghese is a baseball stadium located in Nettuno, Italy. It was built in 1991. 2009 Baseball World Cup (in Italian) Sito della squadra ospitante...
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