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    Pirro Ligorio (c. 1512 – October 30, 1583) was an Italian architect, painter, antiquarian, and garden designer during the Renaissance period. He worked...
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  • Pirro (1920-2008), Italian screenwriter and novelist Pirro Ligorio (died 1583), Italian artist Pirro people, commonly called Yine people, an indigenous...
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  • Mexican footballer Loren Ligorio (born 1955), Croatian painter Orsat Ligorio (born 1985), Croatian and Serbian linguist Pirro Ligorio (c. 1512/1513-1583),...
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    fountains and gardens. D'Este commissioned a prominent classical scholar, Pirro Ligorio, who had studied the Villa Hadriana and other Roman sites in the vicinity...
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    garden was created during the 16th century. The design is attributed to Pirro Ligorio, and the sculptures to Simone Moschino. Situated in a wooded valley...
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    Innocent VIII with the Sistine Chapel. When Bramante died, architect Pirro Ligorio finished the project and added the wall and niche to close the courtyard...
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    into the seat of the Holy Office. Renovation works were undertaken by Pirro Ligorio and Giovanni Sallustio Peruzzi. A complete renovation of the building...
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    Virgo maior regia Laurentium Lavinatium, CIL XIV, 2077, as read by Pirro Ligorio, now housed in the Palazzo Borghese at Pratica di Mare. Cecere above...
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  • Arachne. L'altro Teatro della Villa Adriana, conosciuto fin dal tempo di Pirro Ligorio, e Francesco Contini, meglio scoperto, e quindi rilevato colle sue parti...
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    Pia, now known as Casina Pio IV, in the Vatican Gardens designed by Pirro Ligorio. It is now the headquarters of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He...
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    Echidna. Sculpture by Pirro Ligorio 1555, Parco dei Mostri (Monster Park), Lazio, Italy...
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    took on the project, which had not yet been completed, and, turning to Pirro Ligorio, improved it. The complex, as it was completed in 1562, comprised an...
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    Other 16th-century writers on grottesche included Daniele Barbaro, Pirro Ligorio and Gian Paolo Lomazzo. In the meantime, through the medium of engravings...
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    buildings exist. They were more easily traceable in the 16th century when Pirro Ligorio and Antonio Labacco made plans of the harbour. Considerable excavations...
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    d'Este, a World Heritage Site, whose construction was started in 1550 by Pirro Ligorio for Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este and which was richly decorated with...
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    and building work. Although the renowned antiquarian and architect Pirro Ligorio was also consulted, it seems likely that the success of the water features...
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    notable artists of the Forum include Canaletto, Maerten van Heemskerck, Pirro Ligorio, Giovanni Paolo Panini, and Hubert Robert. Other fora existed in other...
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  • itself is found on both the first and last page of the text. in 1551 Pirro Ligorio found an ancient Roman marble statue of a seated figure near Campo Verano...
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    fountains at the intersections of the paths. It was finished in 1565 by Pirro Ligorio. The original garden was drastically modified by the later addition...
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    the city's topography until the 18th century. He lost a debate with Pirro Ligorio on the site of the Roman Forum, but was later proved right in that matter...
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    Domenico Fontana, Giacomo Della Porta, Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, Pirro Ligorio, Carlo Maderno, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini. Style...
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    Circus of Nero from a map of Pirro Ligorio from 1561, with the mausoleum of Hadrian...
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    It was finished by Pirro Ligorio for Pius IV in 1562–65. To the great open-headed exedra at the end of the uppermost terrace, Ligorio added a third story...
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  • very similar in character and their identities could overlap at times. Pirro Ligorio in the Codice Torinese reports the tradition about this god (Sancus)...
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    this chapel until 1511, when they were moved to Naples. Designed by Pirro Ligorio in 1559, the tomb of Gian Pietro Carafa, who became Pope Paul IV in...
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    1583. The design of the facade has been attributed to a combination of Pirro Ligorio and Giovanni Battista Aleotti. Bentivoglio decorated the facade with...
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    Nahuatl-language text of folio 60v. On November 7, in Ferrara, Italy, architect Pirro Ligorio described "the comet shimmering from a burning fire inside the dazzling...
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    Donato Bramante, Raphael, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Michelangelo, Pirro Ligorio, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Giacomo della Porta, and Carlo Maderno...
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    IV's uncle and mentor, Cardinal Oliviero Carafa, a tomb was created by Pirro Ligorio and Paul IV's remains were placed therein. Paul IV's title in the Prophecy...
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  • aesthetics and are decorated with pools and fountains, designed by Pirro Ligorio. They had a large influence on European garden design. Late Baroque...
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