Alessandro Algardi (July 31, 1598 - June 10, 1654), was an Italian sculptor and architect. July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining, as the final day of July. ... Events January 7 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia following the death of his brother-in-law, Tsar Feodor I April 13 - Edict of Nantes - Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics. ... June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... Events April 5 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War. ... Sculptor redirects here. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect, also known as a building designer, is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction, whose role is to guide decisions affecting those building aspects that are of aesthetic, cultural or social concern. ...

He was born at Bologna. While under tutelage of Agostino Carracci, his preference for sculpture became evident, and began working under the sculptor Conventi. At the age of twenty he was brought under the notice of Ferdinand, Duke of Mantua, who gave him several commissions. He was also much employed about the same period by jewellers and other craftsmen, modelling in gold, silver and ivory. Bologna (from Latin Bononia, Bulaggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. ... Categories: People stubs | 1557 births | 1602 deaths | Italian painters ...

After a short residence in Venice he went to Rome in 1625 with an introduction from the Duke of Mantua to the pope's nephew, Cardinal Ludovisi, who employed him for a time in the restoration of ancient statues. The duke's death left him to his own resources, and for several years he earned a precarious living from these restorations and commissions of goldsmiths and jewellers. In 1640 he created, for Pietro Buoncompagni, his first work in marble, a colossal statue of Philip Neri, with kneeling angels. Immediately after this, he produced a similar group, representing the execution of Saint Paul, for the church of the Barnabite Fathers in Bologna. These works, displaying great technical skill, though with considerable exaggeration of expression and attitude, at once established Algardi's reputation, and other commissions quickly followed. Location within Italy Venice (Italian: Venezia), the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice, 45°26′ N 12°19′ E, population 271,663 (census estimate 2004-01-01). ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... S. Filippo Neri Philip Romolo Neri (Filippo de Neri; called, Apostle of Rome), (July 21, 1515 - May 26, 1595), was an Italian churchman, noted for founding a society of secular priests called the Congregation of the Oratory. He was was born at Florence, the youngest child of Francesco Neri, a... An early portrait of the Apostle Paul. ...

The turning point in Algardi's fortune was the accession of Pope Innocent X, of the Bolognese house of Panfili, to the papal throne in 1644. He was employed by Camino Panfili, nephew of the pontiff, to design the Villa Doria Panfili outside the San Pancrazio gate. The most important of Algardi's other works are in the Vatican: the monument of Pope Leo XI, a bronze statue of Innocent X for the capitol, and most prominently La Fuga d'Attila or Papa Leone ferma Attila (the flight of Attila or Pope Leo meeting Atilla). This large dramatic marble alto-relievo reinvigorated the use of marble in reliefs. The two principal figures, the stern and courageous pope and the fleeing and frightened Atilla, surge from the center. Only they see they two can see the descending angelic warriers rallying to the pope's defense; while all others persist in daily duty. In a reference to his patron, Algardi has harnessed the legend that a Leonine pope, with supernatural aide, detered the Huns from looting Rome. So hoped Leo XI to impress all that the papacy could beckon divine retribution against enemies. The marble relief beckons instead to see the mastery of control: the papal injunction both hearkens the cringing heathen to faith and calls forth the smiting angels. This is passionate action restrained by stone relief. Innocent X born Giovanni Battista Pamphili (May 6, 1574 – January 5, 1655) was Pope from 1644 to 1655. ... Leo XI, né Alessandro Ottaviano de Medici (June 2, 1535–April 27, 1605), was pope from April 1, 1605 to April 27 of the same year. ...

Algardi was also known for his portraiture which shows a obssesive attention to detail ultimately causing serene classic visages, a sober but immediate naturalism, such as in the busts of Laudivio Zacchia, Camillo Pamphilj, and Muzio Frangipane and his two sons Lello and Roberto [1]. In St. Peters Basilica, he was responsible for the tomb of Leo XI (completed 1644). In temperament, his style was more akin, among his contemporaries to Francois Duquesnoy than to Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Leo XI, born Alessandro Ottaviano de Medici (2 June 1535—27 April 1605), was pope from April 1, 1605 to April 27 of the same year. ... A self portrait: Bernini is said to have used his own features in the David (below, left) Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini) (December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680), who worked chiefly in Rome, was the pre-eminent baroque artist. ...

In 1650 Algardi met Diego Velasquez, who obtained some interesting commissions for his Italian companion in Spain. There are four chimneys by Algardi in the palace of Aranjuez, where the figures on the fountain of Neptune were also by him. The Augustine monastery at Salamanca contains the tomb of the count and countess de Monterey, another work by Algardi. From an artistic point of view, he was most successful in portrait-statues and groups of children, where he was obliged to follow nature most closely. In his later years he amassed a great fortune. He died in Rome. // Events June 23 - Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland, the only of the three Kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler. ... Las Meninas, painted in 1656. ... Aranjuez is a town in the southern part of Autonomous Community of Madrid in central Spain and is the southernmost, and 48 km south of the city of Madrid. ... This article is about the Greek god. ... Region La Armuña Province Salamanca Autonomous community Castilla y León Postal code 37001-370nn Coordinates  - Latitude:  - Longitude 40°58 N 5º40 W Altitude 802 m Surface 386 km² Distances 212 km to Madrid 115 km to Valladolid Population  - Total (2004)  - Density 157. ...

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