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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 )
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Barberini and ivory
The Barberini ivory, a 6th century ivory diptych representing either Anastasius or Justinian I.
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.
* Barberini ivory
It is instructive to compare, for instance, the early Byzantine portrait of Justinian on the Barberini ivory with the portrait of Otto III in the Munich Gospels of Otto III ( Bayerische Nationalbibl.
Barberini and late
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.
In 1620 Landi returned to Rome, where he spent the rest of his life, where his patrons included successively the Borghese family, Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy, and the Barberini family, who were to be his major employers throughout the late 1620s and 1630s, though he joined the papal choir in 1629 on half-salary.
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Circa 1598 painting of Maffeo Barberini at age 30 by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio | Caravaggio.
Image: Caravaggio Maffeo Barberini. jpg | Caravaggio, Portrait of Maffeo Barberini
German troops and Italian Social Republic | Italian collaborators round-up of civilians in front of the Palazzo Barberini, Rome in March 1944.
Barberini and from
Roman copy of a Greek 5th century Hera of the " Barberini Hera " type, from the Museo Chiaramonti
Pope Urban VIII ( baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644 ), born Maffeo Barberini, was pope from 1623 to 1644.
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.
She had inherited the vase from the Barberini family.
However, their return from Spain in 1626 stabilized Poussin ’ s position, with renewed patronage by the Barberini and their circle.
The Barberini Faun ( located in the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany ) is a Hellenistic marble statue from about 200 BCE that was found in the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian ( the Castel Sant ' Angelo ) and installed at Palazzo Barberini by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini ( later Pope Urban VIII ).
The pope's brother, Cardinal Antonio Barberini, who was of the Capuchin Order, in 1631 ordered the remains of thousands of Capuchin friars exhumed and transferred from the friary on the Via dei Lucchesi to the crypt.
Although he himself had never been there, he undoubtedly knew from drawings and engravings of examples in buildings, such as the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, and had already used one to great effect at his Château du Raincy.
Through his agents, he managed to acquire such pieces as the Medusa Rondanini, the Barberini Faun, and, in 1813, the figures from the Aphaea temple on Aegina.
In 1633, Pope Urban VIII ( Maffeo Barberini ) commissioned from Cortona a large fresco painting for the ceiling of the Barberini family palace ; the Palazzo Barberini.
Cardinal Antonio Barberini, who was a member of the Capuchin order, in 1631 ordered the remains of thousands of Capuchin friars exhumed and transferred from the friary Via dei Lucchesi to the crypt.
Notable pieces in the collection included furniture from the Barberini Palace and the Baroness Burdett-Coutts estate in London.
Folio 125r from the Barberini Gospels: The incipit to John.
He received a pension from the King of France and his patrons included the Barberini family, Cassiano dal Pozzo, Paolo Giordano Orsini and Vincenzo Giustiniani.
But the city of Castro was removed from the Farnese family holdings when the Farnese fell out with the Barberini family of Pope Urban VIII sparking the Wars of Castro.
The Psalter belongs to a group of manuscripts from Southern England known as the Tiberius group, also including the Stockholm Codex Aureus, Barberini Gospels, the Book of Cerne, the Tiberius Bede, and the Book of Nunnaminster.
Barberini and imperial
All of these residences, at the time of Emperor Domitian were combined into a single fund owned by the Emperor's Albanum Cesaris, within which erected a monumental imperial residence, with the ruins mostly contained in the Villa Barberini at Castel Gandolfo.
Barberini and workshop
In Rome he lived at Via Sistina in front of the Spanish Steps and had his workshop in the stables of the Palazzo Barberini.
Barberini and Constantinople
Barberini Ivory, Constantinople, 6th century, Louvre.
Barberini and first
Urban VIII sent him to accompany his nephew, Francesco Barberini, whom he had accredited as nuncio, first in France and then in Spain, where Pamphilj had the first-hand opportunities to form an intense animosity towards the Barberini.
* Borromini's church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane ( or San Carlino-originally Chiesa della Santissima Trinità e di San Carlo Borromeo ), the first and last work of this architect ( the façade was completed after his death ) commissioned by the Barberini.
The papal palace, and the adjoining Villa Barberini that was added to the complex by Pius XI have enjoyed extraterritorial rights since the signature of the 1929 treaty with Italy ; the little piazza directly in front was renamed Piazza della Libertà in the first flush of Italian unity after 1870.
At first, Pope Urban threatened to excommunicate anyone who helped Odoardo, but Odoardo's allies insisted their conflict was not with the papacy, but rather with the Barberini family ( of which the Pope happened to be a member ).
Antonio left first while his brothers hung the French coat of arms above the door of the Palazzo Barberini then went to France by sea.
Master tailor Nazareno Fonticoli and his business partner Gaetano Savini opened their first suit shop in Rome's Via Barberini at the end of World War II.
The sculpture made its first documented appearance in a receipt for its restoration, 6 June 1628, when it already belonged to the Pope's nephew, Cardinal Francesco Barberini.
Barberini and 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 ).
Barberini and Museum
The National Archeological Museum of Palestrina is housed inside the Renaissance Barberini Palace, the former baronial palace, built above the ancient temple of Fortuna.
* The Portland Vase ( once known as the Barberini Vase ), bought from the family by Sir William Hamilton and now in the British Museum
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