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Borghese 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,... Read more
Borghese Villa 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
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi 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... Read more
Borghese Warrior Borghese Warrior
Borghese Warrior (or Borghese Gladiator). Marble statue (Louvre, Paris) of a nude warrior in a vigorous attitude of combat (his sword and shield are missing, but he is evidently lunging at an opponent on horseback in a type of pose that has been described as a ‘heroic diagonal’). It... Read more
Tate Gallery Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery London, originally the National Gallery of British Art. The original building (in Millbank on the former site of Millbank Prison), with a collection of 65 modern British paintings, was given by Sir Henry Tate and was opened in 1897. It was extended by another gift of Tate's in 1899,... Read more
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini 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,... Read more
Gianlorenzo Bernini Gianlorenzo Bernini
Bernini, Gianlorenzo (b Naples, 7 Dec. 1598; d Rome, 28 Nov. 1680). Italian sculptor, architect, painter, and designer, the supreme artist of the Italian Baroque. His father Pietro (1562–1629) was a Mannerist sculptor of some distinction, active in Naples and then from c.1605 in Rome, and ... Read more
Lo Scarsellino Lo Scarsellino
Scarsellino, Lo ( Ippolito Scarsella) (b Ferrara, c.1551; d Ferrara, 1620). The leading Ferrarese painter of his period. He produced a good deal of large-scale work, including frescos, but he is now remembered mainly for his small mythological or religious scenes set in landscapes, several of... Read more
National Gallery of Art National Gallery of Art
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. In December 1936, Andrew W. Mellon offered to build an art gallery for the United States in Washington, D.C., and to donate his superb art collection to the nation as the nucleus of its holdings. President Franklin D. Roosevelt recommended... Read more
Dirck van Baburen Dirck van Baburen
Baburen, Dirck van (b Wijk bij Duurstede, nr. Utrecht, ?c.1595; d Utrecht, 21 Feb. 1624). Dutch figure painter, mainly of religious scenes. He is first documented in 1611, in Utrecht, where he was a pupil of Moreelse. Soon afterwards he moved to Italy, where he stayed until about 1620, mainly in... Read more

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