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    Two Busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese are marble portrait sculptures executed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1632. Cardinal Scipione...
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    Scipione Borghese (Italian pronunciation: [ʃiˈpjoːne borˈɡeːze; -eːse]; 1 September 1577 – 2 October 1633) was an Italian cardinal, art collector and patron...
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    made two Busts of Pope Paul V. The first is currently in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. 1618 is the commonly accepted date for the portrait of the pope...
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    Cardinal Scipione Borghese commissioned the sculpture and gave it to the newly appointed Cardinal-nephew, Ludovico Ludovisi, possibly as a means of gaining...
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    David (Bernini) (category Bernini sculptures in the Borghese Collection)
    was one of many commissions to decorate the villa of Bernini's patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese – where it still resides today, as part of the Galleria...
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    was immediately claimed by Cardinal Scipione Borghese and became part of the Borghese Collection. The "Borghese Hermaphrodite" was later sold to the...
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    Apollo and Daphne (Bernini) (category Bernini sculptures in the Borghese Collection)
    tree. Apollo and Daphne was the last of a number of important works commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese from Gian Lorenzo Bernini that helped...
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    portrait busts are included in the gallery, including one of Pope Paul V, and two portraits of one of his early patrons, Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1632)...
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    Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius (category Bernini sculptures in the Borghese Collection)
    especially the antique ones, eventually caught the attention of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, who loved arts, money and male physical beauty, and who was...
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    (1646–1652) – Galleria Borghese, Rome. Stefano Maderno's sculpture of St Cecilia in namesake church (1600). Melchiorre Caffà's Santa Rose of Lima (1665) and...
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    Pamphili in Rome. Like the two busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, it is believed that Bernini created a second version of the bust once a flaw was discovered...
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    Rome under the protection of Cardinal Scipione Borghese. In Rome, he worked on various projects for Pope Paul V, another Borghese, including the Pauline...
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    Scipione Borghese also bought widely from leading painters and sculptors of his time, and Scipione Borghese's commissions include two portrait busts by...
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    makes this bust different compared to other busts Bernini has created; the busts he would create would normally involve important figures of high class...
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    Truth Unveiled by Time (Bernini) (category Bernini sculptures in the Borghese Collection)
    government and transferred to its current home on a plinth in room VI of the Galleria Borghese. Its plinth there was originally tilted but it is now on a flat...
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    national collection of older paintings in Rome. Around 1549 Cardinal Alessandro Sforza came into possession of the garden/vineyard of Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da...
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    Bust of Pope Gregory XV is a marble portrait sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Executed in 1621, the work is one of three busts of...
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    Gian Lorenzo Bernini (category Articles with National Gallery of Canada identifiers)
    Peter's Basilica, Vatican City Two Busts of Scipione Borghese (1632) Marble, height 78 cm (31 in), Galleria Borghese, Rome Bust of Costanza Bonarelli (1635)...
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    approach of the Via della Conciliazione (in honor of the Lateran Treaty of 1929). The spina (median with buildings which divided the two roads of Borgo Vecchio...
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    as did the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone of which Innocent was the sponsor. The base of the fountain is a basin from the centre of which travertine rocks...
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  • Bernini (Estratto dal fasc. 124)". Hess, Catherine (2009). "Ritratto del Cardinal Alessandro Damasceni Peretti di Montalto". I marmi vivi: Bernini e la nascita...
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    The Bust of Cardinal Richelieu is a marble sculpture by the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, situated at the Louvre in Paris. Richelieu had hoped...
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    Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (category Sculptures of women in Italy)
    descendants, Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi degli Albertoni, had a nephew who married the niece of Pope Clement X, who in turn formally adopted the cardinal as his...
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    martyrologies indicate that two liturgical feasts were celebrated in Rome, centuries before the time of Charles the Bald, in honour of earlier chairs associated...
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    Nasciata del Barocco in Casa Borghese, 1998, eds. Anna Coliva and Sebastian Schutze Irving Lavin, Visible Spirit - The Art of Gianlorenzo Bernini, Volume...
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    first act of his play La Tosca in the church. It has served as the titular church of Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Scherer since 2007. The main façade of the church...
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    Saint Longinus (Bernini) (category Sculptures of men in Italy)
    imitated by a Hellenistic model, the Borghese centaur (Louvre). This technique can also be seen in Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Theresa, where Saint Theresa...
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    of the columns that support the baldachin. The two outer sides of each plinth are decorated with the Barberini family's coat of arms. This series of eight...
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    Champaigne's Triple portrait of Cardinal de Richelieu, c. 1642. Many copies of the work were made, possibly by supporters of the royal House of Stuart, including...
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    2020, the Galleria Borghese began a fund raising campaign to purchase the last bust on this list from the Barberini family. List of works by Gian Lorenzo...
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