said to be a portrait of Michelangelo). In the fourth chapel, the Cappella Orsini, are scenes of the Passion of Christ by Paris Nogari and the funeral...

Alfonsina Orsini. His paternal grandparents were Lorenzo the Magnificent and Clarice Orsini. His maternal grandparents were Roberto Orsini, Count of Tagliacozzo...

2012) Gerardo de Simone, Per Lorenzo da Viterbo, dal Palazzo Orsini di Tagliacozzo alla Cappella Mazzatosta, ivi, pp. 29–79 e tavv. V-XXXVI (http://www.predella...

Sistine Chapel (/ˌsɪsˈtiːn ˈtʃæpəl/; Latin: Sacellum Sixtinum; Italian: Cappella Sistina [kapˈpɛlla siˈstiːna]) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the...

eldest son of Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent) and Clarice Orsini. He was raised alongside his younger brother Giovanni, who would go on to...

Rome from 1107 to 1108. In the feud between the Orsini and Colonna families, they supported the Orsini. Their power was at its greatest when they achieved...

Medici 12. Orso Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo 6. Jacopo Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo 13. Lucrezia Conti 3. Clarissa Orsini 14. Carlo Orsini, Lord of Bracciano...

2006-10-21. How the Monuments Men Saved Italy's Treasures Smithsonian magazine Orsini Luigi, The Malatesta temple; sixtyfour illustrations, and text (1915). Tempio...

by the papal legate Cardinal Napoleone Orsini and it contains the tomb of the cardinal's brother, Giovanni Orsini, who died between 1292 and 1294. The funerary...

included Popes) still in existence include notably the Colonna, Massimo, Orsini, Ruspoli, Pallavicini, Theodoli, Sacchetti, Borghese, Odescalchi, and Boncompagni-Ludovisi...

Rovere. Catherine was first cared for by her paternal grandmother, Alfonsina Orsini. After Alfonsina's death in 1520, Catherine joined her cousins and was raised...

dates to the 11th century. It was rebuilt around 1450 by Cardinal Latino Orsini, as a chapel for a monastery he established next door, and in which he installed...

fifteenth century. He painted a cycle of 300 famous historical figures in the Orsini Palace in Rome about 1433–34 and also worked in Todi. He spent his later...

projected height of the church. In the same year of 1453 Count Francesco Orsini sponsored the construction of the façade at his own expense. However work...

Ottobono Fieschi (1262–1276) Giacomo Colonna (1288–1297) Francesco Napoleone Orsini (administrator 1298–1306) Giacomo Colonna (again) (1306–1318) Pietro Colonna...

married Clarice Orsini on 7 February 1469. The marriage in person took place in Florence on 4 June 1469. She was a daughter of Giacomo Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo...

'smile of the soul' - Vatican News". September 4, 2022. "Miranda, Salvador. "Orsini, O.P., Vincenzo Maria", Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, August 18, 2015"...

the Mediterranean between 839 AD and around 1200 AD.[citation needed] Cappella Rupestre (Chapel in the Rock), in the village of Gete. A 13th century church...

basilicas. Several famous relics of disputed authenticity are housed in the Cappella delle Reliquie, built in 1930 by architect Florestano Di Fausto, including...

Riccardo Annibaldi (1254–1276) Giovanni Gaetano Orsini (1276–1277) Matteo Rosso Orsini (1278–1305) Napoleone Orsini Frangipani (1306–1342) Annibaldo di Ceccano...

pupils of Raphael. He also painted Histories of Alexander in the Castello Orsini at Bracciano. Nearly all his paintings were large, rapidly executed frescos...

retaining considerable independence; he lived in the Orsini palace until 1593, in the service of Virginio Orsini, the nephew of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Another...

Donati, Lorenzo accepts marriage to a religious Roman noblewoman, Clarice Orsini (who initially wanted to be a nun but is obliged to give up her dream for...

1278) Bentivenga dei Bentivenghi (1230–1289) (1278, 1285) Latino Malabranca Orsini (d. 1294) (1278, 1289) Gerardo Bianchi (1220/25–1302) (1278, 1294) Giovanni...

transepts' ceilings. The first chapel to the right of the nave is the Cappella di Sant'Andrea, so named because the church previously on the site, which...

patronized early on, and encouraged to become an artist by Cardinal Vincenzo Orsini (later Pope Benedict XIII). By the 1680s, he had independent fresco commissions...

de' Medici (the Magnificent) (1449–1492) Lord of Florence m.(1) Clarice Orsini Giuliano de' Medici (1453–1478) Cosimo de' Medici (1452–1461) Lorenzo the...

Angevin Kings of Naples in mid-15th century. The Neapolitan branch of the Orsini family took control in 1483 and as allies of the Aragonese Kings, they were...

The Sistine Chapel ceiling (Italian: Soffitto della Cappella Sistina), painted in fresco by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of...

featured on a cabinet completed in that year; it was commissioned by Niccolò Orsini, Count of Pitigliano [it], as a gift to Philip II of Spain: the sculptures...