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    Bellarmine SJ (Italian: Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino; 4 October 1542 – 17 September 1621) was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal of the Catholic Church....
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  • Borgia (TV series) (category Television series created by Tom Fontana)
    Virginio Orsini Karel Dobrý as Cardinal Giovanni Colonna Andrew Hawley as Alfonso d'Este Predrag Bjelac as Cardinal Francesco Piccolomini Nicolás Belmonte...
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    Casanatense at Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Fontana mainly worked in Rome, assisted by his nephews Girolamo and Francesco Fontana (1668–1708), but he sent a model...
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    e Paesaggistici del Lazio, 2005 Francesco Vignaroli, Fontana vivace, SEF Touring, p. 113 Francesco Vignaroli, Fontana vivace, SEF Touring Club Italiano-La...
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    fountain should be distinguished from the nearby Fontana dei Tritoni (Fountain of the Tritons) by Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri in Piazza Bocca della Verità which...
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    Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) is a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini...
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    royal commissions from outside Rome, for subjects such as Cardinal Richelieu of France, Francesco I d'Este the powerful Duke of Modena, Charles I of England...
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    care of his property, the Villa Montalto, erected by Domenico Fontana close to the cardinal's beloved church on the Esquiline Hill, overlooking the ancient...
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    Francavilla Fontana (Francavillese: Francaìdda [fɾaŋkaˈiɖɖa]) is a town and comune (municipality) in the province of Brindisi and region of Apulia, in...
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    artists such as Poussin, Lorrain, Velázquez, Duquesnoy, Algardi, Francesco Fontana and Cosimo Fancelli. Born as Carlo in 1620 into the prominent princely...
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    150 scudi". A letter from the writer Fulvio Testi to the Cardinal to Count Francesco Fontana, 29 January 1633 also talks of the bust, Testi saying it...
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    Campidoglio” Finti arazzi commissioned by Cardinal Ottoboni from Domenico Paradisi, Michelangelo Ricciolini and Francesco Borgognone for the Palazzo della Cancelleria...
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    Francesco Borromini (/ˌbɒrəˈmiːni/, Italian: [franˈtʃesko borroˈmiːni]), byname of Francesco Castelli (Italian: [kaˈstɛlli]; 25 September 1599 – 2 August...
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    April 1431) Francesco Condulmer, (19 September 1431-April 1445) Enrico Rampini, (16 December 1446 – 4 July 1450) Giovanni Castiglione (cardinal), (9 March...
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    Monbeig-Goguel, Catherine (ed.). "Prospero Fontana Alias Giorgio Vasari: Collaboration and the Limits of Authorship". Francesco Salviati e la Bella Maniera: 577–608...
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    Domenico Fontana and Giacomo della Porta, who designed the façade, according to an entirely different design. The church was consecrated by the Cardinal François...
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    XI; Albanian: Klementi XI; 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States...
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    Bernini. In this chapel are buried Cardinal Marzio Ginetti (died 1671) and his nephew, the Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Ginetti (died 1691). The second Strozzi...
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    Press, 1991), p.69. "Fontana delle Naiadi | Rome, Italy Attractions". "Mario Rutelli, my great-grandfather. Interview with Francesco Rutelli". 30 January...
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    (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1991). L. Finocchi Ghersi, "Francesco Fontana e la basilica dei Santi Apostoli a Roma," Storia dell'Arte no. 73...
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    Raggi, Bernini's pupil. The monuments for Cardinals Benedetto and Gastaldi were designed by Carlo Fontana, who also provided design for the cupola and...
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    The Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi (Italian: Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi; Latin: Basilica Sancti Francisci Assisiensis) is the mother church...
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    The Fontana della Barcaccia (Italian: [barˈkattʃa]; "Fountain of the Boat") is a Baroque-style fountain found at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome's...
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    including Francesco Filelfo and Niccolò Mauruzi, burned during a fire in 2008. The present sipario is an 18th-century curtain by Fontana. In 1975, the...
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    carries Proserpina into. Cardinal Scipione Borghese commissioned the sculpture and gave it to the newly appointed Cardinal-nephew, Ludovico Ludovisi...
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    Marietta Robusti Jacopo Bassano Prospero Fontana Ercole de' Roberti Ghiberti Francesco Bassano Lavinia Fontana Michele di Ridolfo Ceserani 1970. Ellis...
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    Rainaldi was born in Rome. He trained with the architect-engineer Domenico Fontana and collaborated as a junior partner with Giacomo Della Porta, whom he...
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    interior was renovated by Domenico Fontana in 1587 (after being commissioned by Pope Sixtus V in 1586) and Francesco Borromini in 1643. The Kingdom of...
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    series The Borgias, and by Dejan Čukić in Tom Fontana's 2011 series, Borgia. On 30 November 2003, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, then Secretary of State of the...
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    the bottom of the steps. The stairway was designed by the architects Francesco de Sanctis and Alessandro Specchi. Generations of heated debate over how...
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