The Barberini Ivory, which is thought to portray either Justinian or Anastasius I

The Barberini ivory, a late Theodosian Byzantine Empire | Byzantine ivory carving | ivory leaf from an imperial diptych, from an imperial workshop in Constantinople in the first half of the sixth century ( Louvre Museum )

The Barberini ivory, a 6th century ivory diptych representing either Anastasius or Justinian I.

Roman copy of a Greek 5th century Hera of the " Barberini Hera " type, from the Museo Chiaramonti

In the early 17th century, Urban VIII Barberini tore away the bronze ceiling of the portico, and replaced the medieval campanile with the famous twin towers ( often wrongly attributed to Bernini ) called " the ass's ears ," which were not removed until the late 19th century.

The setting of the Piazza Barberini has changed significantly since the seventeenth century.

The Barberini are a family of the Italian nobility that rose to prominence in 17th century Rome.

The Barberini family were originally a family of minor nobility from the Tuscan town of Barberino Val d ' Elsa, who settled in Florence during the early part of the 11th century.

The fine Palazzo Barberini, the Barberini library ( now a core section of the Vatican's Biblioteca Apostolica ), and the many buildings, altars, and other projects spread across Rome ( and marked with the heraldic three bees ) give evidence of the family's wealth, taste and magnificence in the seventeenth century.

Family tree of the 16th and 17th century Barberini ( hereditary patriarchy of the family is indicated by the colored squares ).

He acquired the Byzantine Barberini ivory ( it is not known how or from whom ) and offered it to Francesco Barberini: the work is now in the Louvre.

Propelled by the Borghese and Barberini patronage, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his studio garnered most of the major Roman sculptural commissions.

With the death of the Barberini Pope Urban VIII in 1644 and the accession of the Pamphilj Pope Innocent X, the Barberini family and their favorite artist, Bernini, fell into disrepute.

In 1627 Anna Colonna, daughter of Filippo I Colonna, married Taddeo Barberini of the family Barberini ; nephew of Pope Urban VIII.

He moved to Rome in 1619 and started working for Carlo Maderno, his distant relative, at St. Peter's and then also at the Palazzo Barberini.

Early in their careers they had all worked at the same time at the Palazzo Barberini, initially under Carlo Maderno and on his death, under Bernini.

Following his accession to the papacy, Urban VIII is reported to have said, " Your luck is great to see Cardinal Maffeo Barberini Pope, Cavaliere ; but ours is much greater to have Cavalier Bernini alive in our pontificate.

The collection contains three pages of the Shahnameh, an epic book of poems by Ferdowsi in Persian, and a Syrian metalwork named the Barberini Vase.

Its last representants Enrico ( died September 12, 1643 ) and Francesco ( 1592-September 21, 1650 ) sold Monterotondo to the Barberini in 1641.

Later Rospigliosi worked closely with Pope Urban VIII ( 1623 – 1644 ), a Barberini Pope, where he worked in the Papal diplomacy as nuncio to Spain, among other posts.

During the reign of Pope Innocent X ( 1644 – 55 ), who was hostile to the Barberini and their adherents, Rospigliosi continued his appointment as papal nuncio to the court of Spain.

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Pope Urban VIII ( baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644 ), born Maffeo Barberini, was pope from 1623 to 1644.

Circa 1598 painting of Maffeo Barberini at age 30 by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio | Caravaggio.

Maffeo Barberini was born in 1568 into the wealthy merchant Barberini family in Florence, Italy.

He practiced nepotism on a grand scale ; various members of his family were enormously enriched by him, so that it seemed to contemporaries as if were establishing a Barberini dynasty.

He also bestowed upon their brother, Taddeo Barberini, the honorific title Prince of Palestrina ; Palestrina being the comune owned by the Barberini family.

For the purposes of making cannon and the baldacchino in St Peters, massive bronze girders were pillaged from the portico of the Pantheon leading to the well known lampoon: quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barberini, " what the barbarians did not do, the Barberini did.

Artistic and architectural commissions included the family palace in Rome, the Palazzo Barberini, the college of the Propaganda Fide, the Fontana del Tritone in Piazza Barberini, the cathedra in St Peters and other prominent structures in the city.

Ivory Dominoes were routinely used in 19th century rural England in the settling of disputes over traditional grazing boundaries, and were commonly referred to as " bonesticks " ( see Hartley, Land Law in West Lancashire in the mid-19th Century, Farm Gazette, March 1984 ).

Thus, in the story " Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks ", the Time Patrol's resident agents in the Tyre of King Hiram are a twentieth century Israeli couple, who express their wish to help the ancient Tyrians " in order to compensate a bit for what our country is going to do here.

* Ivory throne of Tsar Ivan IV, Western Europe, 16th century:

Ivory and gold ornaments, bronze vessels of ornate workmanship, fine pottery and the odes of Alcman all testify to refined tastes, continuing even into the sixth century.

Ivory with traces of paint, 11th – 12th century, Egypt

Gradually, French control was established over much of Northern, Western, and Central Africa by the turn of the century ( including the modern nations of Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Ivory Coast, Benin, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo ), and the east African coastal enclave of Djibouti ( French Somaliland ).

The Krahn arrived in the area known as Liberia as part of early sixteenth century migrations from the north-east and what is now the Republic of Ivory Coast.

File: Ivory tabernacle Louvre OA2587. jpg | Late 14th century French Gothic triptych, probably for a lay owner, with scenes from the Life of the Virgin

The four major Sufi brotherhoods are all represented in Ivory Coast, although the Qadiriya, founded in the eleventh century, and the Tidjaniya, founded in the eighteenth century, are most popular.

As a group, the Senufo people are considered to be one of the oldest ethnic groups of the Ivory Coast, having settled there in the early 17th century.

Ivory plaque, probably from a book cover, Reims late 9th century, with two scenes from the life of Saint Remy and the Baptism of Clovis I | Clovis

Ivory consular diptych of Areobindus, Byzantium, 506 AD, Louvre.