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.

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 )

* 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 Ivory, Constantinople, 6th century, Louvre.

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 ).

The most famous sculpture representing the Hellenistic period is the Barberini Faun ( 220 BC ).

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

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

Relations were also later repaired with some of Odoardo's former allies when Taddeo's daughter, Lucrezia Barberini married Francesco I d ' Este, Duke of Modena who had led Modenese forces against the Barberini.

Taddeo's older son Carlo Barberini was made a cardinal by Pope Innocent X. Taddeo's daughter, Lucrezia Barberini, married Francesco I d ' Este, Duke of Modena ( who had previously sided with the Farnese during the First War of Castro ), further stabilizing relations.

The 1627 marriage of Taddeo Barberini and Anna Colonna, daughter of Filippo I Colonna began the century-long process which would eventually see the Barberini merge with the Colonna family.

* The Barberini Faun and Barberini Apollo, sold to Ludwig I of Bavaria and now in the Munich Glyptothek

The cultural influence of the dynasty was considerable, and provided the subject for a major international conference in December 2004 ( and subsequent publication ), entitled I Barberini e la Cultura Europea.

King Ludwig I managed to acquire such famous pieces as the Medusa Rondanini, the Barberini Faun and the figures from the Temple of Aphaea on Aegina for the Glyptothek.

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.

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.

Art from Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka in gold, silver, bronze, stone, terracotta and ivory represents these rich and complex cultures, the displays span the 6th to 19th centuries.

Some of the earliest known examples were found in the treasuries of Delphi, dating to about the 6th century BC, but their use as supports in the form of women can be traced back even earlier, to ritual basins, ivory mirror handles from Phoenicia, and draped figures from archaic Greece.

19th century craftsmen were famed for their ornate wooden hunting hats, which feature elaborate and colorful designs and may be trimmed with sea lion whiskers, feathers, and ivory.

File: Carved ivory depicting a woman at a window. jpg | Carved ivory object from the Nimrud Ivories, Phoenician, Nimrud, 9th-8th century BC ( the Nimrud Ivories are widely considered to be one of the Ancient Near East's greatest discoveries )

After the 16th century, Benin mainly exported pepper, ivory, gum, and cotton cloth to the Portuguese and Dutch who resold it to other African societies on the coast.

Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable for the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west ; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations.

The Bull Leaper, an ivory figurine from the palace of Knossos, Crete, 15th century BCE

One item in particular that devastated the elephant herds in Kenya in the first half of the 20th century was the demand for elephant tusk ivory for piano keys.

Jeroboam's reign was also the period of the prophets Hosea, Joel, Jonah and Amos, all of whom condemned the materialism and selfishness of the Israelite elite of their day: " Woe unto those who lie upon beds of ivory ... eat lambs from the flock and calves ... sing idle songs ..." The book of Kings, written a century later condemns Jeroboam for doing " evil in the eyes of the Lord ", meaning both the oppression of the poor and his continuing support of the cult centres of Dan and Bethel, in opposition to the temple in Jerusalem.

Among the works are the Pyxide d ' al-Mughira, a 10th century ivory box from Andalusia ; the Baptistery of Saint-Louis, an engraved brass basin from the 13th or 14 century Mamluk period ; and the 10th century Shroud of Josse from Iran.

Netsuke of tigress with two cubs, mid-19th century Japan, ivory with shell inlay

In the 16th century, Duarte Barbosa noted that many ships from the Kingdom of Cambaya in what is modern-day India sailed to Mogadishu with cloth and spices, for which they in return received gold, wax and ivory.

They opened trading posts and engaged in the " trade :" – a term which, under the Ancien Régime, means any type of trade ( wheat, pepper ivory …), and not necessarily, or only the slave trade, although this " infamous traffic ", as it was called at the end of the 18th century, was indeed at the heart of a new economic order, controlled by powerful companies in privilege.

In the 16th century, Duarte Barbosa noted that many ships from the Kingdom of Cambaya in India sailed to Mogadishu with cloths and spices, for which they in return received gold, wax and ivory.

During the 19th century and the early 20th century, walruses were widely hunted and killed for their blubber, walrus ivory, and meat.

Arabesque pattern behind hunters on ivory carving | ivory plaque, 11th – 12th century, Egypt

Some scholars believe that the famous Lewis chessmen, 12th century chess pieces carved from walrus ivory found in the Hebrides and now at the British Museum, may have been made in Trondheim.

At first, the trade included gold, ivory, and pepper, but the establishment of American colonies in the sixteenth century spurred a demand for slaves, who soon became the major export from the West African coastal regions ( see African slave trade ).

A profitable trade in ivory, which gave the area its name, was carried out during the seventeenth century, but it brought about such a decline in elephants that the trade itself virtually had died out by the beginning of the eighteenth century.