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    Sforza, Duca di Segni by Maffeo Barberini, of the Barberini family, who became Pope Urban VIII. Three great architects worked to create the Palazzo, each contributing...
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    election of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini to the papal throne in 1623, as Pope Urban VIII. Their urban palace, the Palazzo Barberini, completed in 1633 by...
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    been such a projectile. It was traditionally asserted that Cardinal Maffeo Barberini commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to restore the statue, "but there...
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    Palazzo Barberini ai Giubbonari, also called Casa Grande Barberini, to distinguish it from the more famous palace in the Trevi district, is a historic...
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    Italian: Urbano VIII; baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644), born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States...
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    was originally placed on a since-destroyed pedestal with a poem by Maffeo Barberini. It has been praised for its realism, as the marble mimics other materials...
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    Carracci's The Loves of the Gods in the Palazzo Farnese gallery (completed 1601). In 1633, Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) commissioned from Cortona a large...
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    brothers, Antonio was educated at the Collegio Romano. Barberini's uncle, Maffeo Barberini was elected as pope on 6 August 1623 (the day after Antonio's 16th...
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    University of Pisa, graduating in canon and civil law in 1623. His uncle, Maffeo Barberini, newly elected as Pope Urban VIII, made him archpriest of S. Giovanni...
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    In 1632 it was acquired by Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) for the grounds of his new family palazzo. In 1822 Pope Pius II had it transferred to the...
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    male heir of the Barberini line. His great-grand uncle was Pope Urban VIII. Urbano Barberini was born in Rome, the son of Maffeo Barberini and Olimpia Giustiniani...
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    male Barberini to hold the name and granddaughter of Maffeo Barberini (son of Taddeo Barberini). The Colonna family have been Prince Assistants to the...
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    more friendly, and somewhat later the Barberini were rehabilitated when the son of Taddeo Barberini, Maffeo Barberini, married Olimpia Giustiniani, a niece...
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    Michelangelo of his age,' later repeating that prophecy to Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (the future Pope Urban VIII), as Domenico Bernini reports in his biography...
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    the left is the Cappella Barberini, designed by Matteo Castelli di Melide in 1616, on a commission from Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (who became Pope Urban...
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    Palestrina (category Barberini family)
    Barberini reconciled with the papacy when Pope Innocent X elevated Taddeo's son, Carlo Barberini to the cardinalate and his brother Maffeo Barberini married...
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    detailed motifs including heraldic emblems of the Barberini family (Urban VIII was born Maffeo Barberini) such as bees and laurel leaves. The underside of...
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    Crocifisso. Upon Antonio Barberini's return, he commissioned an opera from Marazzoli for the wedding of Taddeo Barberini's son Maffeo Barberini; pressed for time...
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    Bernini. Even before it was finished, Bernini's friend and protector Maffeo Barberini was elected pope, as Pope Urban VIII. The sculpture shows a scene from...
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    University of Pisa, where he became friends with Galileo Galilei and Maffeo Barberini, the future Pope Urban VIII. Buonarroti was elected to the Accademia...
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  • wife of Taddeo Barberini (Prince of Palestrina). Mother of Lucrezia Barberini, Duchess of Modena, of Maffeo Barberini and of Carlo Barberini. Federico Colonna...
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    by Del Monte's heirs to Cardinal Antonio Barberini in 1628, when it was described as "Un giovane che sona di clevo" (without an attribution) and included...
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    The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (Caravaggio) (category Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano)
    last picture. It is in the Intesa Sanpaolo Collection, the Gallery of Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples. According to one version of the legend of Saint...
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    Maffeo had 'scarcely ascended the sacred throne' when he summoned Bernini and told him: "It is your great fortune to see Cardinal Maffeo Barberini Pope...
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  • Thumbnail for Saint Francis in Prayer (Caravaggio)
    refers to the version in Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, in the Palazzo Barberini. St Francis's life of poverty and humility was a popular subject in...
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    their many titles. In 1664 Maffeo Barberini purchased Pacentro from the Colonna (the family of his mother, Anna Colonna). Maffeo's granddaughter Cornelia...
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  • at the Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1642 Il ratto di Proserpina by an anonymous composer to a libretto by Pompeo Colonna, performed at the palazzo of Pompeo...
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    The Taking of Christ (Italian: Presa di Cristo nell'orto or Cattura di Cristo) is a painting, of the arrest of Jesus, by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo...
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    The Crucifixion of Saint Peter (Italian: Crocifissione di san Pietro) is a work by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, painted in 1601 for the Cerasi Chapel...
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    the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle at the same time as Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, particularly as the Strozzi Chapel included a tomb dedicated to Cardinal...
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