People – those who created the city
Aetius (390–454) – the tragic end of „the last Roman”
Agostino Chigi (1466–1520) – a financial genius, an enthusiast of lavish lifestyle and art
Alaric (370–411) – revenge of an underestimated ally, meaning a strike at the very heart of the Empire
Alberic II (909? – 954) – an annihilator of his own mother and a prince of Rome
Alessandro Algardi (1598–1654) – unappreciated master of the Baroque art
Andrea Pozzo (1642–1709) – a master of painting illusion
Andrea Sansovino (approx. 1467–1529) – the one who was able to bring the dead back to life
Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) – a straightforward recluse in the world of Roman splendor
Antinous (approx. 110–130 A.D.) – a youth, for whom the emperor lost his mind
Antiveduto Grammatica (1571–1626) – an expert on heads with an extraordinary name
Antoniazzo Romano (1430? – 1512?) – an outstanding imitator of great masters
Antonio Barberini (1607–1671) – one of the three “musketeers” of Urban VIII
Antonio Canova (1757–1822) – praised by his contemporaries, disregarded by later generations
Antonio Raggi (1624–1686) – a second pair of hands for master Bernini
Armando Brasini (1879–1965) – creator of a bombastically draped architecture
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653) – an unwomanly painter, humiliated and forgotten for centuries
Attila (approx. 400–453) – divine whip and the nemesis of Rome, a figure between myth and reality
Baciccio (1639–1709) – the creator of heaven and hell on Earth
Barberini – a recipe for immortality
Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511–1592) – the beginnings of an outstanding career of a great Italian Mannerist
Beatrice Cenci (1577–1599) – a patricide absolved by Romans, commemorated by the city
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) – successor of emperors; a charismatic and adored leader
Bronzino (1503–1572) – subtle, refined, and mysterious
Camillo Francesco Maria Pamphilj (1622–1666) – an arthritis-filled expiation of the papal nephew
Camillo Rusconi (1658–1728) – a little known genius of the turn of the centuries
Caravaggio (1571–1610) - a subtle interpreter of the Bible and a common criminal
Carlo Maderno (1556–1629) – a sought-after, hard-working and talented architect
Carlo Maratti (Maratta) (1625–1713) – an outstanding portraitist and a father of an equally outstanding daughter
Carlo Rainaldi (1611–1691) – an architect with a love for music
Carlo Saraceni (1579–1620) – an artist somewhere between verismo and idealism
Cesare Borgia (1476–1507) – papal offspring whom the whole world feared
Emperor Antoninus Pius (86–161) – a god-fearing, reasonable and just host
Emperor Domitian (51–96) - a great constructor and a despot hated by the Senate
Emperor Hadrian (76–138) – a traveler and an admirer of Greek culture
Emperor Honorius (384–423) – the one, who allowed Rome to be plundered
Emperor Caracalla (188–217) – a brutal madman or a victim of propaganda?
Emperor Commodus (161–192) – an unfortunate son of a great father
Emperor Maxentius (278–312) – an oppressor or a victim of a black legend?
Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121–180)– a philosopher on the imperial throne
Emperor Nerva (30–98) – a reasonable, gentle and wise emperor
Emperor Romulus Augustulus (approx. 463–ok. 536) – the last emperor of the Western Empire and….nothing more
Emperor Septimius Severus (145–211) – the one, who made the army into a leading force in the empire
Emperor Theodosius the Great (347–395) – the one, who turned imperium Romanum into imperium Christianum
Emperor Trajan (53–117) – the ideal Roman ruler – courageous, generous and on good terms with the Senate
Emperor Titus (39–81) – the conqueror of Jerusalem and lover of Berenice
Emperor Velentinian III (419–455) – the pathetic mutiny of a marginalized ruler
Empress Domitia Longina (53?–128?) – respected and condemned, the fate of the wife of the last Flavian
Helena – from an innkeeper to a saint, meaning how legends are made
Empress Julia Domna (150/160? – 217) – an ambitious ruler and an unhappy mother
Chigi – the ups and downs of a powerful family
Cosimo Fancelli (1618–1688), a great, but second-tier master of the Roman Baroque
Daniele da Volterra (1509–1566) – sentenced to many years of ridicule
Dirck van Baburen (approx. 1592/93–1624) – a short, intense life of a Caravaggionist from the North
Domenichino (1581–1641), the Roman rise and Neapolitan fall of little Dominic
Domenico Fontana (1543–1607) – an exceptional architect of an entrepreneurial pope
Domenico Guidi (1625–1701) – meaning Bernini in the French style
Donato Bramante (1444 –1514) – a famous wrecker, who changed the face of Rome
The Theodosian dynasty (379–455) – thoroughly Christian, yet marginalized and weak
Ercole Ferrata (1610–1686) – an imitator of extraordinary talent
Farnese - the triumph of nepotism
Ferdinando I de’ Medici (1549–1609) – a lover of antiquity, who avoided papal disfavor
Francesco Barberini (1597–1679) – papal nepot, admirer of books and art, defender of Galileo
Francesco Borromini (1599–1667) – a distrustful melancholic and an extravagant architect
Francesco Cavallini (1640–1703) – a sculptor of garlands and swaying saints
Francesco Maria del Monte (1549–1626) – a cardinal full of passion for alchemy, music and painting
Francesco Mochi (1580–1654) – ousted, forgotten, disconsolate
Galileo (1564–1642) – the one who dared to ridicule the pope
Galla Placidia (390–450) – an exceptional woman, worth as much as several tons of grain
Genseric (approx. 390–477) – a Vandal, who brought Rome to its knees
Gerrit (Gerard) van Honthorst (1590–1656) – a restrained nocturnal painter
Giacomo della Porta (1533–1602), an author of Roman fountains and the most famous façade in the history of art
Giovanni (Gian) Lorenzo Bernini (1599–1680) – Impulsive, arrogant and ingenious favorite of the popes
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) – a long life after death of the martyr of defiant thought
Giovanni Battista Maini (1690–1752) – elegance of late Baroque
Giovanni Lanfranco (1582–1647) – painter of the Church triumphant
Giulia Farnese Orsini – black-eyed ad black-haired papal mistress
Giuliano Finelli (1602–1653) – a sculptor of lace, leaves and collars, but also more
Giuseppe Cesari (1568–1640) – in the past popular, today a forgotten favorite of the popes
Guercino (1591–1666) – short career of the Pope’s chosen one in Rome
Guido Reni (1575–1642) – a gambler with subtle manners
Honoria (418–455?) – an emancipator or a tool of political calculations?
Imperia Cognati - the most famous courtesan of Renaissance Rome
Jacopo Sansovino (1486–1570) – unappreciated in Rome, famous in Venice
Cardinal Bessarion (1403?–1473) – the one who wanted to save Constantinople
Cardinal Flavio Chigi (1631–1693) – a true dandy and a Roman trendsetter
Cardinal Innocenzo Ciocchi del Monte (1532–1577) – the pope’s favorite with criminal inclinations
Cardinal Paolo Camillo Sfondrati (1560–1618) – chasing sainthood
Charles Borromeo (1538–1584) – an extraordinary nepot, critic and saint of the Church
Constantina – an imperial daughter and an enigmatic saint
Christina of Sweden (1626–1689) – a significant, yet cumbersome papal guest
Liutprand of Cremona (920? – 972?) – a vicious, biased and partial chronicler
Ludovico Ludovisi (1595–1632) – lover of Antiquity and an extremely bright papal nepot
Luigi Moretti (1907–1973) – a rationalist, Fascist and postmodern architect
Marcella (approx. 325–410) – a curious erudite from Aventine Hill
Marcello Piacentini (1881–1960) – praised and criticized creator of Fascist Rome
Maria Clementina Sobieska (1701–1735) between reality and a dream
Marozia (892? – 936?) – „beautiful as a goddess and fiery as a wench”
Melozzo da Forlì (1438–1494) – the one who introduced the delicate touch of Renaissance to Rome
Michelangelo (1475–1564), a painter by force – divine, yet miserable
Monophysitism – meaning the disintegration of Christian unity
Odoacer (433–493) – the fall of the empire, meaning how an intelligent illiterate became a Roman king
Olimpia Maidalchini (1591–1657) – a very entrepreneurial papal sister-in-law
Onorio Longhi (1568–1619) – a vagabond architect
Orazio Borgianni (1574–1616) – a melancholic with intellectual ambitions and an explosive character
Orazio Gentileschi (1563–1639) – an intimate realist prone to rowdiness
Pope Alexander I (? – 116?) – a holy shepherd of the holy water
Pope Alexander VI (1431–1503) – an ambitious strategist with a great heart for women
Pope Alexander VII (1599–1667) – a great constructor with a lead coffin in his bedroom
Pope Alexander VIII (1610–1691), Pietro Vito Ottoboni – a profligate enthusiast of old books
Pope Benedict XIV (1675–1758) – modernizer, reformer, a fierce enemy of Jews and Freemasons
Pope Boniface VIII (1235?–1303), Benedetto Caetani – pope from the eighth circle of hell
Pope Celestine I (?–432) – philosopher striving for the divinity of the mother of Jesus
Pope Damasus I (approx. 305–384) – the one who changed the face of the Roman Church forever
Pope Felix III (Felix II) (?–492) – a saintly, uncompromising and strict pope
Pope Formosus (?816–896) – meaning, how to posthumously become a martyr
Pope Gelasius I (?–496) – meaning Christ’s first Vicar on Earth
Pope Gregory I the Great (approx. 540–604) – a monk by conviction, who changed the face of the Church for centuries
Pope Gregory XIII (1502–1585) – a tireless counter-reformer and an efficient reformer of the calendar
Pope Gregory XIV (1535–1591) – pious, modest, and lacking in will
Pope Gregory XV (1554–1623) – a sickly and phlegmatic protector of the Jesuits
Pope Hilarius (?–468) – a generous donor and a defender of orthodoxy
Pope Hippolytus (approx. 170–235) – an overzealous saintly rigorist
Pope Honorius I (?–638), a fallible pontifex maximus, in addition to being a heretic
Pope Honorius III (1150–1227) – a significant Church strategist and an uncompromising ruler
Pope Innocent I (? – 417) – a charismatic leader of the Church in times of chaos and uncertainty
Pope Innocent III (1160–1216) – the first Vicar of Christ on Earth
Pope Innocent VIII (1432–1492) – sickly, yet resourceful protector of his own children
Pope Innocent X (1574–1655) – a modest brother-in-law of a greedy popess
Pope Innocent XI (1611–1689) – a strict reformer, moralist and subduer of art
Pope Innocent XII (1615–1700) – an exemplary shepherd and a protector of castrates
Pope John XII (?937–964) – meaning the one who was mortally wounded by the devil in the bed of a married woman
Pope Julius II (1443–1513) – a valiant ruler, courageous politician and a great protector of art
Pope Julius III (1487–1555) – a dream about the power of ...a family
Pope Callixtus III (1378–1458) – a disliked aesthetic from the Pyrenean Peninsula
Pope Clement IX (1600–1669) – a librettist and humanist devoted to God
Pope Clement VII (1478–1534) – a powerless politician and a firm protector of artists
Pope Clement VIII (1536–1605) – an enemy of nudity, a pious and kind despot
Pope Clement X (1590–1676) – a humble pope with an ambitious nepot
Pope Leo I the Great (400?–461) – defender of Rome and the man behind the power of the Church
Pope Leo X (1475–1521) – a generous patron of art and an enthusiast of parties and feasts
Pope Nicholas V (1397–1455) – the one, who made art into a foundation of faith
Pope Paschal I (?–824) – a collector of relics and a self-admirer
Pope Paul II (1417–1471) – an enthusiast of carnival parties
Pope Paul III (1468–1549) – an uncompromising patron of artists and his own family
Pope Paul V (1552–1621) – a generous funder and a foresighted city manager
Pope Pelagius II (?–590) – a protector of the needy and of Gregory the Great
Pope Pius II (1405–1464) – a complete humanist on St. Peter’s throne
Pope Pius XII (1876–1958) – a silent pontifex maximus
Pope Sergius III (approx. 870–911) – meaning „ the slave of every vice”
Pope Stephen VI (? – 897) – a story of the battle between the pope and a cadaver
Pope Sixtus III (390–440) – a great constructor of Christian Rome
Pope Sixtus IV (1414–1484) – a man of Renaissance and the creator of a new Rome
Pope Sixtus V (1521–1590) – the bane of bandits and womanizers
Pope Sylvester (? -335) – a marginal figure, yet a saint
Pope Symmachus (? – 514) – a controversial but unrelenting shepherd
Pope Simplicius (? – 483) – a bishop of Rome on the border of two eras
Pope Theodore I (?–649) – a pope who brought the dead to Rome
Pope Urban I (? – 230) – the beginning of the historical policy of the Church
Pope Urban VIII (1568–1644) – pontifex maximus of the Baroque art
Paula of Rome (347–404) – an example of womanly virtues
Pauline Borghese (1780–1825) – a French provocateur in the papal chapel
Pierre Le Gros (1666–1719) – the dramatically halted magnificent Roman career
Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) – the father of yellow journalism and literary pornography
Pietro Bracci (1700–1773) – a master of elegance and theatrical gestures
Pietro da Cortona (1596–1669) – a virtuoso of glories, triumphs and apotheoses of all kinds
Pinturicchio (1454–1513) – a creator of a simple, filled with grace storylines
Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi) (1421–1481) – humanist, rebel, courtier
Raphael (1483–1520) – the prematurely deceased genius of the Renaissance
Rospigliosi – a shadow of its former glory
Scipione Caffarelli Borghese (1577–1633) – cardinal and papal nepot with truly earthly passions
Silvia Ruffini (approx. 1475–1561) – a lonely, quiet widow, with a group of a cardinal’s children
Simon Vouet (1590–1649) – the panache, flair, and richness of the Baroque
Stefano Maderno (c. 1570–1636) – an artist famous for just one statue
Theodora the Elder (? – 928?) – a prostitute or a woman of „truly manly strength”?
Theodoric the Great (441–526) – a barbarian, for whom Romans erected monuments
Trophime Bigot (1597–1650) – a mysterious master of candlelight
Tullia d’Aragona (1508? – 1556) – the queen of literary salons
Vanozza Cattanei (1442–1518) – the unofficial wife of the pope and the official mother of his children
Victor Emanuel III (1869–1947) – a king rejected and unwanted
Magdalene Fainting – a bold act (between mystical rapture and sexual ecstasy
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Since the very beginning of his services at the court of Pope Urban VIII Cardinal Spada was considered a dutiful, unyielding, and consistent man. Tall and well-built, he was seen as a handsome man, who garnered respect, and even fear, due to both his mental and physical qualities, but was not well-liked. And if on top of that, we add the perfectionism and pedantry that was attributed to him, then his portrait would be complete. However, the cardinal was not much concerned about his spiritual and mental qualities when he entrusted the painting of his portrait to the Bolognese painter Guido Reni...
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In 1648, the 23-year-old at that time Domenico Guidi arrived in the Eternal City. He had to leave his hometown of Naples, due to the riots connected with Neapolitan Rebellion, in which he actively took part. He was already well-versed in sculpture thanks to his uncle Giuliano Finelli, in whose workshop he had been working until then. This relationship most likely proved to be a great trump card for an artist searching for commissions in Rome, but it could have also been a hindrance. This is due to the fact that the artistic community of the city was ruled by Gian Lorenzo Bernini – he was...
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