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Borghese
Borghese , Roman noble family, originally of Siena. It produced one pope, Paul V , several cardinals, and many prominent citizens. The Borghese were noted patrons of arts and letters. Scipione Cardinal Borghese built the fine Villa Borghese in Rome. Camillo Borghese, a general under Napoleon I, mar... Read more
Borghese Villa
Borghese Villa bōrgā´zā vēl´lä or Villa Umberto I , summer palace built by Scipione Cardinal Borghese outside the Porta del Popolo, Rome. Begun in 1605, the villa was transformed in the 18th cent. into a more elaborate edifice. In 1806 it yielded much of its... Read more
Giuseppe Cesari
Giuseppe Cesari called Cavaliere d'Arpino , 1568-1640, Italian late mannerist painter. Cesari's outstanding works are the frescoes in the Capitol and in the Borghese Chapel, Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome. Other works are Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise (Louvre); a self-portrait (Uff... Read more
Guastalla
Guastalla , town (1991 pop. 13,354), Emilia-Romagna, N Italy, on the Po River. It is an agricultural and industrial center. Probably founded in the 7th cent., Guastalla was held by various lords and in 1539 was bought by Ferrante Gonzaga of Mantua. It was made a duchy in 1621. After the Guastalla br... Read more
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi , 1606-80, Italian painter and architect, called Il Bolognese. He was a pupil of the Carracci and of Francesco Albani. With the exception of two years in France (1649-51), where he decorated the Mazarin Palace (now the Bibliothèque nationale) and other buildings fo... Read more
Scopas
Scopas , Greek sculptor, fl. 4th cent. BC, b. Paros. Although numbered among the Athenians, he wandered from place to place and did not attach himself to any school. He was the first to express violent feeling in marble faces. Some mutilated fragments from the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea, of whic... Read more
Dosso Dossi
Dosso Dossi , 1479?-1542, Italian painter of the Ferrarese school, whose real name was Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri. He may have been a pupil of Lorenzo Costa, but was certainly influenced by Giorgione, Titian, and Raphael. He often collaborated with his brother Battista, a landscape painter... Read more
Giovanni Lanfranco
Giovanni Lanfranco , 1582-1647, Italian painter. Lanfranco is considered one of the foremost artists of the High Baroque. He was trained by the Carracci and worked primarily in Rome and Naples, where he executed numerous decorative plans for churches and palaces. Lanfranco greatly extended the sco... Read more
Paul V
Paul V 1552-1621, pope (1605-21), a Roman named Camillo Borghese; successor of Leo XI. He was created cardinal (1596) by Clement VIII and was renowned for his knowledge of canon law. On his election as pope he set out at once to restore all the prerogatives the papacy had ever enjoyed. He soon quar... Read more
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini , 1598-1680, Italian sculptor and architect, b. Naples. He was the dominant figure of the Italian baroque . After receiving early training from his father, Pietro (1562-1629), an accomplished Florentine sculptor, Bernini worked mainly in Rome. Many of his early statues, suc... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Borghese"

Paul V (Pope) (Camillo Borghese; 1552–1621; Reigned 1605–1621)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World PAUL V (POPE) (Camillo Borghese; 1552 – 1621; reigned...1621) PAUL V (POPE) (Camillo Borghese; 1552 – 1621; reigned...receiving a doctorate in law at Perugia, Borghese, who was of Sienese origins, was...
Borghese
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Borghese , Roman noble family, originally of Siena. It...several cardinals, and many prominent citizens. The Borghese were noted patrons of arts and letters. Scipione Cardinal Borghese built the fine Villa Borghese in Rome. Camillo...
Borghese Villa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Borghese Villa bōrgā´z...I , summer palace built by Scipione Cardinal Borghese outside the Porta del Popolo, Rome. Begun...repository for many of the paintings from the Borghese Palace.
Vannoccio Biringuccio
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...died in 1512, Biringuccio supported his son Borghese Petrucci and was named to a post in the Armory...debasing the currency with the approval of Borghese. A popular uprising forced Borghese and his followers, including Biringuccio...
Paul V
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Career Pope Paul V was born as Camillo Borghese in Rome, Italy, on September 17, 1550...When Pope Leo XI died on May 8, 1605, Borghese was one of several candidates to succeed...on his relatives and that he made the Borghese family wealthy while he was pope. However...
Tenth Light Flotilla
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...mid-1942 by Commander Prince Junio Borghese, used to good effect during the early...with an EMB. When Italy surrendered Borghese himself remained loyal to the Germans...and frogman operations. Bibliography Borghese, J. , Sea Devils (London, 1952...
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the Pope and the Pope's favorite nephew, Cardinal Scipione Borghese. The cardinal, a man of vast wealth with a real passion for...Sculptural Style Of Bernini's early work for Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the most spectacular is the life-size marble group Apollo...
Antonio Canova
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Napoleon (1802-1810) and of Napoleon's sister, Pauline Borghese (1808). In the statue of Napoleon, which is nearly 12 feet...features made to conform to the classical ideal. Princess Borghese, life-size and partly draped, is shown as Venus reclining...
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1622), and Apollo and Daphne (1625), were done for Scipione Cardinal Borghese, one of the most important patrons of the period. These are all in the Borghese Gallery, Rome. Popes Urban VIII, Innocent X, and Alexander VII gave him...
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598–1680)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...life-size sculptures Bernini executed for Cardinal Scipione Borghese that contemporary reports of his earlier precocity seem entirely...characterize certain of his portraits, like the bust of Scipione Borghese (1632) or that of the artist's mistress, Costanza Buonarelli...

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Borghese Gallery
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Borghese Gallery ( Galleria Borghese ), Rome. Italian state museum housed in the Villa Borghese. The villa was built (1613–15) for Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1576–1633) as a rural retreat (it was then on the outskirts...
Borghese Warrior
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Borghese Warrior ( Borghese Gladiator ). Marble statue (Louvre, Paris) of a nude warrior...was discovered in 1611 at Nettuno (near Anzio), had entered the Borghese collection by 1613, and was bought by Napoleon (brother-in...
Canina, Luigi
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...He succeeded Asprucci at the Villa Borghese Gardens, where his scholarly Egyptian...1801–14). His works at the Borghese Gardens included the Fountain of Esculapius...and Le nuove fabbriche della Villa Borghese… (The New Buildings of the...
Bernini, Gianlorenzo
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...introduction to the powerful patrons, the Borghese and the Barberini , who fostered his early career. For Cardinal Scipione Borghese he executed a remarkable series of...1622–5), all in the Borghese Gallery in Rome. In their dramatic...
Asprucci, Antonio
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...are the sumptuous interiors of the Villa Borghese, Rome (from 1782), and the enlivening of the Borghese Gardens with arches, pavilions, pools...x2013;1804), also worked on the Villa Borghese Gardens in the 1780s and 1790s (the plan...
Presle, Micheline
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Affairs in Versailles ; Royal Affairs in Versailles ) (Guitry) (as Madame de Pompadour); Villa Borghese (Les Amants de villa Borghese ; It Happened in the Park ) (Franciolini) 1954 Casa Ricordi (House of Ricordi ; La Maison du souvenir...
Reni, Guido
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...Pallavacini, Rome), a captivatingly beautiful ceiling fresco painted for Cardinal Scipione Borghese . Reni was also a favourite artist of Borghese's uncle, Pope Paul V, but in spite of his success in Rome he settled in Bologna in 1614 and...
Canova, Antonio
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...of Wellington, and Catherine the Great of Russia; his portrait of Napoleon's sister ( Pauline Borghese as Venus , 1805–7, Borghese Gal., Rome) is one of his most celebrated works, a marble equivalent to J.- L. David's Madame...
Amidei, Sergio
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Destini di donne (Daughters of Destiny ) (Pagliero); Villa Borghese (It Happened in the Park ) (Franciolini) 1954 Cronache di...vita (Scola) 1973 Anastasia nio fratello (Steno) 1977 Un borghese piccolo piccolo (Monicelli) 1979 Le Temoin (Mockey) 1981...
Philipe, Gérard
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...conté (Guitry) (as D'Artagnan); Monsieur Ripois (Clément) (title role); Les Amants de la Villa Borghese (Franciolini); Le Rouge et le noir (Autant-Lara)(as Julien Sorel) 1955 Les Grandes Manoeuvres (Clair) (as Armand...

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Borghese launches a new foundation. (Princess Marcella Borghese)
Magazine article from: WWD; 7/19/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...a season of turmoil Princess Marcella Borghese is moving ahead by launching a new foundation...the brand's parent company Halston Borghese, came close to selling it off in recent...company in 1991 - are now solidly behind Borghese, according to the firm's president...
Borghese eyes the next level. (Halston Borghese Inc.) (Supplement: Treatment) (Company Profile)
Magazine article from: WWD; 3/19/1993; ; 700+ words ; NEW YORK -- Princess Marcella Borghese is a 35-year-old cosmetics and skin...president for North America at Halston Borghese Inc. That company was formed in January...Saudi Arabian investment group bought the Borghese and Halston brands and licensing rights...
BORGHESE TREATS ITSELF TO NEW BUSINESS PLAN, INCLUDING DOWNSIZING.(Princess Marcella Borghese)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: WWD; 9/24/1999; ; 700+ words ; NEW YORK -- Borghese, the cosmetics company that markets...operation. Before, we did everything." Borghese, said Mosbacher, had its own chemists...and really build on our heritage." Borghese has been going through a tough year...
Rubel awakens Borghese. (Matt Rubel president of the Princess Marcella Borghese division of Revlon Inc.)
Magazine article from: WWD; 10/20/1989; ; 700+ words ; Rubel awakens Borghese NEW YORK -- Matt Rubel, president of Revlon...general manager of Revlon's Princess Marcella Borghese line and was touring the country asking beauty adivisers about Borghese's strengths and weaknesses. "When I asked...
Francesco Borghese does it his way. (CEO of Orlane Inc. and La Parfumerie Inc.)
Magazine article from: WWD; 6/5/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...of two cosmetics companies, Francesco Borghese has been doing his utmost to maintain...tradition. The son of Princess Marcella Borghese began his own career in the beauty industry...1946, and La Parfumerie Inc., which Borghese formed here in 1980. Borghese expects...
United Feather & Down and Borghese Ink Unique License Agreement.
PR Newswire; 9/14/2009; 700+ words ; ...it signed a licensing agreement with Borghese for a line of home textiles that promote...firm and cosmetics manufacturer. The Borghese brand tagline, "The Elements of Life...will be introduced under the Villa Di Borghese brand name. "The Elements of Life...
At Rome's heart, Villa Borghese
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 2/28/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...slowly stroll musing on times past. This is the Borghese Gardens, known as Villa Borghese because of the famous villa-museum, built...the bon vivant connoisseur Cardinal Scipione Borghese.Until 1902 Villa Borghese, which has a circumference...
The best bet isn't sure bet Via Borghese could fall short at Rockingham -- just ask Ghazi
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/4/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...Opponents have spoken so glowingly of Via Borghese that it would appear all she has to do...there is one fly in the ointment. Via Borghese could "pull a Ghazi." Ghazi, touted...The similarities between Ghazi and Via Borghese are striking. Both are age 4; both...
Borghese looks abroad. (Halston Borghese Inc.)
Magazine article from: WWD; 1/24/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...executive officer of the newly formed Halston Borghese, Inc. One of the chief objectives of...the performance of Princess Marcella Borghese. Marten, who was senior vice president...discuss figures, but sources indicate that Borghese does about 25 percent of its estimated...
Landscape and Identity in Early Modern Rome: Villa Culture at Frascati in the Borghese Era.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Rome: Villa Culture at Frascati in the Borghese Era. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge...the countryside of Frascati during the Borghese pontificate in the early seventeenth...realizing the dynastic aspirations of the Borghese family. Part of Ehrlich's program...