SCIPIONE BORGHESE: ACTOR PROTAGONIST ÎN ȚINUTURILE TUSCOLANE
SCIPIONE BORGHESE: LEADING ACTOR ON TUSCAN LANDS
Author(s): Margherita FratarcangeliSubject(s): Architecture, History of Art
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Scipione Caffarelli Borghese; Paolo V Borghese; Flaminio Ponzio; Girolamo Rainaldi; Giovanni Vasanzio; Matthäus Greuter; Rome; Frascati; Alban Hills; Monte Porzio Catone; Burghesianum, patronage;
Summary/Abstract: Scipione Borghese: Leading Actor on Tuscan Lands. The contribution focuses on the figure of Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1577-1633) and on the role he playedas patron of the arts in the Colli Albani area, in particular in the city of Frascati (located 20 kilometers east of Rome). The cardinal, nephew of Pope Paul V Borghese and very important personality of the Roman curia, is investigated hereas a promoter of the arts and in particular as the patron of many architectural and landscape arrangements made on the hills of Frascati. The villas purchased by the Borghese family under went enlargement, reconstruction and decoration (such as Villa Taverna, Villa Torlonia, Villa Mondragone and Villa Grazioli). The cardinal and the Villas moved a lot of money and many artistic workers (architects, painters, sculptors, plasterers, masons, etc.) that made Frascati the Petrified testimony of the economic, political and cultural ideas of the Borghese himself.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes Bolyai - Historia Artium
- Issue Year: LXV/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 5-31
- Page Count: 27
- Language: Romanian