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Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi (October 22 or 27, 1595–Bologna, November 18, 1632), a cardinal and statesman of the Roman Catholic Church was a connoisseur who formed a famous collection of antiquities, housed at the Villa Ludovisi, Rome. Events January 30 - William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time. ...
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Following in the footsteps of his uncle Alessandro Ludovisi, he was trained at the Jesuit Collegio Germanico, Rome, and went on to the University of Bologna, where he received his doctorate in canon law, February 25, 1615. When Alessandro Ludovisi was acclaimed pope February 9, 1621, taking the name Gregory XV, Ludovico was made cardinal within three days, though he was only 25. The following month he was made archbishop of Bologna though he remained in Rome. His uncle had great faith in his judgment and energy, and in need of a strong and able assistant in governing the Papal States. On the same day, Orazio, a brother of the pope, was put at the head of the pontifical army. Gregory XV was not disappointed in his nephew. As the Catholic Encyclopedia avers, "Ludovico, it is true, advanced the interests of his family in every possible way, but he also used his brilliant talents and his great influence for the welfare of the Church, and was sincerely devoted to the pope." (CE, "Pope Gregory XV"]] The University of Bologna (Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is the university of Bologna, in Italy. ...
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Cardinal Ludovisi is remembered as a connoisseur and patron. He paid for the construction of the Jesuit Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio and Palazzo Ludovisi (now Palazzo Montecitorio), where Bernini was his architect. He rapidly assembled a holding of vinyards and small plots to create the Villa Ludovisi a vast complex of gardens and buildings assembled from private owners and the Carmelite brothers of S. Maria in Traspontina [1]. The Ludovisi Ares, a spectacular discovery of 1622, found its way quickly to the collection, soon enlarged with purchases from Cardinal Altemp's collection, all housed at the splendid Villa Ludovisi, which he surrounded with gardens on the Monte Pincio near Porta Pinciana, in the so-called "Gardens of Sallust" on the site where Julius Caesar and his heir, Octavian (Caesar Augustus), had had their villas. The sculpture was lightly restored by the young Gian Lorenzo Bernini and joined the Dying Gaul in the Cardinal's gallery. He employed Alessandro Algardi to restore other finds, some of which were unearthed in the grounds of the Villa itself. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri painted frescoes at the villa, and Cardinal Ludovisi's house poet was Alessandro Tassoni. The church of Sant Ignazio di Loyola a Campo Marzio was built in 1626 and dedicated to Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order, who had just been canonized. ...
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. ...
The Ludovisi Ares The Ludovisi Ares is a Roman marble sculpture of Mars, a fine copy of a late 4th-century BCE Greek original, associated with Scopas or Lysippus: thus the Roman god of war receives his Greek name, Ares. ...
Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus) (86-34 BC), Roman historian, belonging to a well-known plebeian family, was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines. ...
A bust of Julius Caesar. ...
The famous statue of Octavian at the Prima Porta Caesar Augustus (Latin:IMP·CAESAR·DIVI·F·AVGVSTVS) ¹ (23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), known to modern historians as Octavian for the period of his life prior to 27 BC, is considered the first and one of the most...
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Alessandro Algardi (July 31, 1598 - June 10, 1654), was an Italian sculptor and architect. ...
The Italian painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591—1666) known as Guercino, was born at Cento, a village not far from Bologna. ...
The life Alessandro Tassoni (Modena 1565 – Modena 1635) was an Italian poet and writer. ...
At the casino of the Villa, Cardinal Ludovisi employed Carlo Maderno to rebuild a simple house further up the hill. In a small ground-floor gallery of the casino, Guercino frescoed a ceiling with his Chariot of Aurora, 1621-23. It remains one of the most famous painted decors of Rome. Façade of St. ...
The Italian painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591—1666) known as Guercino, was born at Cento, a village not far from Bologna. ...
His cousin, Cardinal Niccolò Albergati-Ludovisi, was made cardinal in 1645.
By the end of the 19th century, Villa Ludovisi was in ruins. The via Veneto was driven through its grounds, part of which are occupied by the American Embassy, and the rione Ludovisi took shape, borrowing its name from the Cardinal and his Villa.
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