Artists
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
Antiveduto Grammatica (1571–1626) – an expert on heads with an extraordinary name
Antoniazzo Romano (1430? – 1512?) – an outstanding imitator of great masters
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
Baciccio (1639–1709) – the creator of heaven and hell on Earth
Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511–1592) – the beginnings of an outstanding career of a great Italian Mannerist
Bronzino (1503–1572) – subtle, refined, and mysterious
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
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
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
Ercole Ferrata (1610–1686) – an imitator of extraordinary talent
Francesco Borromini (1599–1667) – a distrustful melancholic and an extravagant architect
Francesco Cavallini (1640–1703) – a sculptor of garlands and swaying saints
Francesco Mochi (1580–1654) – ousted, forgotten, disconsolate
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
Giovanni Battista Maini (1690–1752) – elegance of late Baroque
Giovanni Lanfranco (1582–1647) – painter of the Church triumphant
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
Jacopo Sansovino (1486–1570) – unappreciated in Rome, famous in Venice
Luigi Moretti (1907–1973) – a rationalist, Fascist and postmodern architect
Marcello Piacentini (1881–1960) – praised and criticized creator of Fascist Rome
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
Onorio Longhi (1568–1619) – a vagabond architect
Orazio Gentileschi (1563–1639) – an intimate realist prone to rowdiness
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
Raphael (1483–1520) – the prematurely deceased genius of the Renaissance
Stefano Maderno (c. 1570–1636) – an artist famous for just one statue
Trophime Bigot (1597–1650) – a mysterious master of candlelight
Cardinal Paolo Camillo Sfondrati (1560–1618) – chasing sainthood
Cardinal Sfondrati was one of the most influential figures of the Roman Church at the turn of the XVI and XVII centuries. He combined all the good and bad characteristics of this era of increased piousness and severity. Being the papal nepot, for a short while he had the opportunity to achieve everything a cardinal could dream of at that time as far as earthly luxuries, nevertheless he had to be satisfied with a rather lowly function of a presbyter of a church in the poor district of the Trastevere. And it was then that his ambitions exceeded the earthly sphere.
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Pierre Polet desired that his posthumous chapel be decorated with frescoes by Domenichino. There would be nothing extraordinary about this undertaking, had it not been for one of the painted scenes, which surprised and disgusted many of the onlookers. What was it that shook the public of seventeenth-century Rome to such an extent that this painting was on the lips of both the educated elites, as well as simple people? In order to answer this question, we must carefully look at the decorations of the Polet Chapel located in the right nave of the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi.
See morePope Gregory XIV (1535–1591) – pious, modest, and lacking in will
At the age of only sixteen, he was ordained as a priest, and at the age of twenty-five, he became a bishop of Cremona, to then become a cardinal at the age of forty-eight. And he owed it all to his aristocratic origins. At the moment of being called to St. Peter's throne, in 1590, cardinal Sfondrati was fifty-six years old. Ten months later he died, to the chagrin of his family, but also many other people who were able to appreciate the virtues of this modest, pious, but also bereft of political ambitions, successor of St. Peter.
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