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Scipione Caffarelli-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 .
Borghese was the eldest son of Paolo, 9th Prince of Sulmona (1845–1920) and his wife Ilona, Countess Apponyi de Nagy-Appony. He was twice married, firstly to Anna Maria de Ferrari (23 March 1874 – 25 November 1924), daughter of Gaetano, duca di Ferrari by his wife Maria Annenkov, on 23 May 1895, and they had two daughters.
Pauline Borghese, née Bonaparte (1780–1825): sister of Napoleon and wife of Camillo Borghese; Scipione Borghese (1871–1927): politician and explorer; Giangiacomo Borghese (1889–1954): 6th fascist governor of Rome (1939–1944) and husband of the 13th Princess of Leonforte; Paolo Borghese (1904–1985): Duke of Bomarzo and husband of ...
Scipione Borghese (1871–1927) Vittorio Bottego (1860–1897) Giacomo Bove (1852–1887) Sebastiano Caboto (1474–1557) Umberto Cagni (1863–1932) Giovanni Caboto (1450–1500) Alvise Cadamosto (1432–1483) Gaetano Casati (1838–1902) Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766) Cristoforo Colombo (1451–1506) Ambrogio Contarini (1429–1499 ...
David with the Head of Goliath is a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio.It is housed in the Galleria Borghese, Rome. [1] The painting, which was in the collection of Cardinal Scipione Borghese [a] in 1650, [3] has been dated as early as 1605 and as late as 1609–1610, with more recent scholars tending towards the former.
La Zingarella or Gypsy Girl is a 140 centimetres (55 in) tall statue of Diana, [2] a combination of an ancient body with additions commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese [3] and executed by Nicolas Cordier, between 1607 and 1612. The additions, a head and the extremities of the body, were in bronze, and white and grey marble
Caravaggio hoped Borghese could mediate a pardon in exchange for works by the artist. News from Rome encouraged Caravaggio, and in the summer of 1610, he took a boat northwards to receive the pardon, which seemed imminent thanks to his powerful Roman friends. With him were three last paintings, the gifts for Cardinal Scipione. [60]
The "Borghese Hermaphrodite" was later sold to the occupying French and was moved to The Louvre, where it is on display. The Sleeping Hermaphrodite has been described as a good early Imperial Roman copy of a bronze original by the later of the two Hellenistic sculptors named Polycles (working c. 155 BC); [ 1 ] the original bronze was mentioned ...