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    Francesco Maria del Monte, full name Francesco Maria Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria, (5 July 1549 – 27 August 1627) was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and...
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    Caravaggio (1571–1610). The work was commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, who had an avid interest in music. It is one of Caravaggio’s...
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    realism. The Medusa was commissioned by the Italian diplomat Francesco Maria del Monte, who planned to gift the commemorative shield to Ferdinando I...
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    attracted the patronage of Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, one of the leading connoisseurs in Rome. For del Monte and his wealthy art-loving circle...
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    two protectors of the Academy, Cardinals Federico Borromeo and Francesco Maria Del Monte, and was closely attached to the latter; so much that he was elected...
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  • writer Fabrizio del Monte (born 1980), Italian racing driver Francesco Maria del Monte (1549–1627), Italian cardinal Guidobaldo del Monte (1545–1607), Italian...
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    commission (which, strictly speaking, was from his patron, Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, rather than from the church itself), caused Caravaggio considerable...
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    for a room adjacent to the alchemical distillery of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte: hovering around a translucent globe that represents the world...
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    entered the household of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte. It was presumably painted at the behest of Del Monte, and is thought to be one of the first...
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    expanded on earlier instruments designed by Niccolò Tartaglia and Guidobaldo del Monte. For gunners, it offered, in addition to a new and safer way of elevating...
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    Caravaggio was moving in this period, such as those of Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte and the banker Vincenzo Giustiniani. Caravaggio's friend, the...
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    the circles of collectors such as his first patron, Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, around 1594/1595, and who remained close to him for many years...
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  • Bruno Moni Ovadia as Filippo Neri Michele Placido as Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte Tedua as Cecco Maurizio Donadoni as Pope Paul V Davide Stanzione...
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    due to their young age he got thanks to his protector cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte. Vincenzio asked for money. Galileo's financial charges included...
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    La Resurrezione (HWV 47) and the Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (HWV 46a) both dedicated to Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli. Between 1709 and 1716...
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    piece done by the artist for his patron Cardinal Francesco Del Monte: E dipinse [per il Cardinale Del Monte]… anche un giovane, che sonava il Lauto, che vivo...
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    Marshal of Carabinieri Caravaggio's Shadow (2022) .... Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte Pummarò (1990) Close Friends (1992) Un eroe borghese (1995) Of...
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    family, and first recorded in the collection of the Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte before passing into the Barberini family. A female figure, nude...
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    married to Henry, son of King Francis I of France in 1533. Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, patron of the artist Caravaggio, lived there until his death...
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    of vineyards purchased from Giovanni Antonio Orsini, Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte and others, Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi erected in the 1620s the...
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  • care of priests, young Caravaggio catches the eye of Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte. The Cardinal nurtures Caravaggio's artistic and intellectual...
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    suburban retreat established in the 16th century by Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte (1549–1627). The Cardinal was a diplomat, intellectual, art connoisseur...
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    above sea level. The Sacro Monte of Varese is located a few kilometres from the city in the frazione Santa Maria del Monte. It is nestled in the Campo...
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    prefect in charge of the Fabricca, and of the money, Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, suggested that his own personal painter, Caravaggio, should be...
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    Rubens, where it is recorded as in the collection of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte in Italy. In 1626 it passed into the Barberini family collection...
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    c.1630s). It is first recorded in the collection of cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, who probably commissioned it. On his death in 1628 it was sold...
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  • artist was a member of the household of his first patron, Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte. Robb points out that the Baptist is evidently the same boy who...
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  • Emilia dei Conti Orlandini del Beccuto (18 April 1873 in Florence – ?), by whom he had two sons: Don Luigi Francesco Maria dei Principi Ruspoli (31 August...
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    rising Church prelate, a friend of Caravaggio's patron Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, and himself a poet and patron of the arts. Barberini's support...
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    independent state in southern Lazio had been managed by cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte to counterbalance the expansion of the House of Farnese. Giacomo...
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