Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Francesco Algarotti, Scipione Borghese, Giampietro Campana, Stefano Bardini, Giuseppe Panza, Alessandro Farnese, Pietro Ottoboni, Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Benedetto Pamphili, Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, Court painter, Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti, Francesco Maria Del Monte, Jean Pigozzi, Max Mara, Luca Legnani, Carl Mayer von Rothschild, Marcello Massarenti, Vincenzo Giustiniani, Arturo Schwarz, Camillo Massimo, Bernardino Spada, Giuliana Setari Carusi, Leopoldo de' Medici, Ciriaco Mattei, Fortunato Duranti, Fausto Poli, Nicolas Regnier, Enrico Pedrini, Carlo Fea, Giuseppe Fede, Stefano Pignatelli, Gaspar Roomer, Pietro Boncompagni, Sigismund Streit, Stefano Conti, Alessandro Vittrice. Excerpt: Scipione Borghese (1 September 1577 - 2 October 1633) was an Italian Renaissance Cardinal, art collector and patron of the arts. A member of the Borghese family, he was the patron of the painter Caravaggio. His legacy is the establishment of the art collection at the Villa Borghese in Rome. Originally named Scipione Caffarelli, he was born in Artena, the son of Francisco Caffarelli and Ortensia Borghese. His father ran into financial difficulties, so Scipione's education was paid for by his maternal uncle Camillo Borghese. Upon Camillo's election to the papacy as Pope Paul V in 1605, he quickly conferred a cardinalship on Scipione and gave him the right to use the Borghese name and coat of arms. In the classic pattern of papal nepotism, Cardinal Borghese wielded enormous power as the Pope's secretary and effective head of the Vatican government. On his own and the Pope's behalf he amassed an enormous fortune through papal fees and taxes, and acquired vast land holdings for the Borghese family. Scipione received many honours from his uncle. He became superintendent general of the Papal States, legate in Avignon, archprie...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Italian Art Collectors: Francesco Algarotti, Scipione Borghese, Giampietro Campana, Stefano Bardini, Giuseppe Panza, Alessandro Farnese. To get started finding Italian Art Collectors: Francesco Algarotti, Scipione Borghese, Giampietro Campana, Stefano Bardini, Giuseppe Panza, Alessandro Farnese, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Italian Art Collectors: Francesco Algarotti, Scipione Borghese, Giampietro Campana, Stefano Bardini, Giuseppe Panza, Alessandro Farnese
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Francesco Algarotti, Scipione Borghese, Giampietro Campana, Stefano Bardini, Giuseppe Panza, Alessandro Farnese, Pietro Ottoboni, Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Benedetto Pamphili, Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, Court painter, Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti, Francesco Maria Del Monte, Jean Pigozzi, Max Mara, Luca Legnani, Carl Mayer von Rothschild, Marcello Massarenti, Vincenzo Giustiniani, Arturo Schwarz, Camillo Massimo, Bernardino Spada, Giuliana Setari Carusi, Leopoldo de' Medici, Ciriaco Mattei, Fortunato Duranti, Fausto Poli, Nicolas Regnier, Enrico Pedrini, Carlo Fea, Giuseppe Fede, Stefano Pignatelli, Gaspar Roomer, Pietro Boncompagni, Sigismund Streit, Stefano Conti, Alessandro Vittrice. Excerpt: Scipione Borghese (1 September 1577 - 2 October 1633) was an Italian Renaissance Cardinal, art collector and patron of the arts. A member of the Borghese family, he was the patron of the painter Caravaggio. His legacy is the establishment of the art collection at the Villa Borghese in Rome. Originally named Scipione Caffarelli, he was born in Artena, the son of Francisco Caffarelli and Ortensia Borghese. His father ran into financial difficulties, so Scipione's education was paid for by his maternal uncle Camillo Borghese. Upon Camillo's election to the papacy as Pope Paul V in 1605, he quickly conferred a cardinalship on Scipione and gave him the right to use the Borghese name and coat of arms. In the classic pattern of papal nepotism, Cardinal Borghese wielded enormous power as the Pope's secretary and effective head of the Vatican government. On his own and the Pope's behalf he amassed an enormous fortune through papal fees and taxes, and acquired vast land holdings for the Borghese family. Scipione received many honours from his uncle. He became superintendent general of the Papal States, legate in Avignon, archprie...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Italian Art Collectors: Francesco Algarotti, Scipione Borghese, Giampietro Campana, Stefano Bardini, Giuseppe Panza, Alessandro Farnese. To get started finding Italian Art Collectors: Francesco Algarotti, Scipione Borghese, Giampietro Campana, Stefano Bardini, Giuseppe Panza, Alessandro Farnese, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.