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Scipione Borghese ( Italian pronunciation: [ʃiˈpjoːne borˈɡeːze; -eːse]; 1 September 1577 [1] – 2 October 1633) was an Italian cardinal, art collector and patron of the arts. A member of the Borghese family, he was the patron of the painter Caravaggio and the artist Bernini. His legacy is the establishment of the art collection at the ...
Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona. Borghese (left) and Barzini (right) in the Peking to Paris race. Prince Luigi Marcantonio Francesco Rodolfo Scipione Borghese, commonly known as Scipione Borghese (11 September 1871, Migliarino – 18 November 1927, Florence ), was an Italian aristocrat, industrialist, politician, explorer, mountain ...
Tomb of Countess Matilda of Tuscany. Two Busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese are marble portrait sculptures executed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1632. Cardinal Scipione Borghese was the nephew of Pope Paul V, and had commissioned other works from Bernini in the 1620s. Both versions of this portrait are in the Galleria Borghese ...
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Learn about the art collection of Scipione Borghese, a cardinal nephew of Paul V, who acquired works by Raphael, Caravaggio, Bernini and others. Discover the history, the highlights and the legacy of the Borghese Gallery in Rome.
A portrait bust of the powerful and wealthy Roman cardinal, carved by his former assistant Giuliano Finelli in 1632. Learn about the artist, the sitter, and the stylistic features of this Baroque masterpiece.
Sep 1, 2023 · The Villa Borghese Pinciana, built for Scipione Borghese by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, which now houses the Galleria Borghese, was originally intended as a party villa, where Scipione would entertain guests. The villa and the gardens surrounding it, developed on the site of a former vineyard, were acquired by the Italian state from the Borghese family in 1901 and opened to the public two years later.
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Cardinal Scipione Caffarelli Borghese – numen and creator of the Villa on the Pincio – was the son of the noble, but penniless Francesco Caffarelli and Ortensia Borghese, sister of Pope Paul V. The right-hand man of his uncle, the pope, and an insatiable art collector, he was not an intellectual, but a highly inquisitive man endowed with an ...
