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    Pietro Maria Borghese (1599 - 15 June 1642) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal. Borghese was born in 1599 in Siena, the son of Marcantonio Borghese and...
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    Villa Borghese is a landscape garden in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums (see Galleria Borghese) and attractions. It is the third-largest...
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    The House of Borghese is a family of Italian noble and papal background, originating as the Borghese or Borghesi in Siena, where they came to prominence...
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    The Galleria Borghese (Italian for 'Borghese Gallery') is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. At the outset,...
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    Scipione Borghese. In Rome, he worked on various projects for Pope Paul V, another Borghese, including the Pauline Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore...
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    The column in the Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore celebrates the famous icon of the Virgin Mary now enshrined in the Borghese Chapel of the basilica. It is...
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    Gian Lorenzo Bernini (category Burials at Santa Maria Maggiore)
    280 cm (110 in), Galleria Borghese, Rome Memorial to Maria Raggi (1647–1653) Gilt bronze and coloured marble, life-size Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome Ecstasy...
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    Ancona e Umana Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese (17 August 1605 – 2 October 1633), Archbishop of Bologna Pietro Maria Borghese (19 December 1633 – 15 June 1642)...
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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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    Ascanio Colonna 1608–1633: Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese 1633–1642: Pietro Maria Borghese 1644–1666: Girolamo Colonna Federico Sforza (1664–1666, substitute...
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    Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, the Sleeping Hermaphrodite was immediately claimed by Cardinal Scipione Borghese and became part of the Borghese Collection...
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    Raphael became his most famous pupil. Pietro Vannucci was born in Città della Pieve, Umbria, the son of Cristoforo Maria Vannucci. His nickname characterizes...
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    Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Borghese Collection)
    with the other pieces commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese. The influence of his father Pietro Bernini was evident in the rather lumpy handling of the...
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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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  • 1580-1661). From 1638 to 1647 he was in the service of cardinal Pietro Maria Borghese (1599-1642). In 1648 he left Italy to join the court in Brussels...
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    He painted a portrait of a young man now at the Galleria Borghese in Rome. Marisa Reale, Pietro Negroni - Lo zingarello di Cosenza, ISBN 8864562664, FPE...
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    San Pietro in Vincoli ([sam ˈpjɛːtro iɱ ˈviŋkoli]; Saint Peter in Chains) is a Roman Catholic titular church and minor basilica in Rome, Italy. The church...
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    church has large areas of important mosaics from the late 13th century by Pietro Cavallini. The inscription on the episcopal throne states that this is the...
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    completed the Choir frescoes at the church of Santa Maria della Pace which had just been remodelled by Pietro da Cortona. In 1616 he painted ceiling frescoes...
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    same man. The Entombment, ca. 1617, (San Pietro in Montorio, Rome) Capture of Christ, before 1621 (Borghese Gallery, Rome) Christ Washing the Feet of...
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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 nephew...
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    Palazzo Borghese is a palace in Rome, Italy, the main seat of the Borghese family. It was nicknamed il Cembalo ("the harpsichord") due to its unusual trapezoidal...
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    David (Bernini) (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Borghese Collection)
    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 eight...
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  • Bonomi the Elder Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese Junio Valerio Borghese Marcantonio Borghese, 5th Prince of Sulmona...
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    the building work until the discovery of the Borghese Hermaphroditus in the excavations. Scipione Borghese, Cardinal-nephew of Pope Paul V, appropriated...
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    1475, oil on wood, 59 × 40 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome Della Rovere Chapel (late 1470s to 1482), Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome; including The Adoration...
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    Santa Teresa d'Ávila, minor basilica in Corso d'Italia. Santa Maria Immacolata a Villa Borghese, in Piazza di Siena. Madonna dell'Arco Oscuro, in Viale delle...
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  • Opizio Pallavicino (1776–1777) Pietro Pamphilj (1777–1778) Mario Marefoschi Compagnoni (1778–1779) Scipione Borghese (1779–1780) Antonio Eugenio Visconti...
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    the viewer to join in. The Portrait of Pietro Manna, misidentified by Giorgio Vasari as a portrait of Pietro Maria, is estimated to be made around 1557–1560...
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    Papale di San Pietro in Citta di Vaticano), or simply Saint Peter's Basilica (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri; Italian: Basilica di San Pietro [baˈziːlika...
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