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Ludovisi Collection
Ludovisi can refer to: *Ludovisi (family), a noble Italian family **Ludovisi papacy of Pope Gregory XV **Cardinals Ludovisi *** Cardinal Alessandro Ludovisi, later Pope Gregory XV **** Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi (the Pope's Cardinal Nephew and Orazio's son) **** Cardinal Niccolò Albergati-Ludovisi (Ludovico's cousin), Prince of Piombino **Non-ecclesiastic family members ***Orazio Ludovisi (Pope Gregory XV's brother), Italian military commander and patrician of Bologna ****Niccolò Ludovisi (Orazio's son), Prince of Piombino *****Giovan Battista Ludovisi (Niccolò's son), Prince of Piombino *****Olimpia Ludovisi (Niccolò's daughter and grand-niece of two popes) *****Ippolita Ludovisi (Niccolò's daughter and grand-niece of two popes) **Villa Ludovisi, a suburban villa in Rome, built in the 17th century for Cardinal Ludovico, destroyed in the 19th century; its territory becoming the Ludovisi rione. *** Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, a remaining portion of the villa, now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovisi (family)
The House of Ludovisi was an Italian noble family, originating from Bologna. They had close ties with the Papacy and were influential in the Papal States. Alessandro Ludovisi became a cardinal and later Pope Gregory XV. His cardinal-nephew was Ludovico Ludovisi. Beginning in 1634 with Niccolò I Ludovisi, one branch of the family ruled the Principality of Piombino. They owned the Villa Ludovisi in Rome. In 1894, they sold their art collection to the state. Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi, prince of Venosa, was a winemaker at his estate Fiorano from the late 1940s to 1995.Asimov, Eric, ''The New York Times'' (December 22, 2004)An Italian Prince and His Magic Cellar/ref> Origins The Ludovisi were an ancient noble family originally from Bologna. It originated from a certain Bertrando di Monterenzio, also called Bertrando di Monterenzoli (the name derived from that of a Bolognese castle), who was adopted by his maternal uncle Giovanni Ludovisi, without descendants and with whom t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juno Ludovisi
The Juno Ludovisi (also called Hera Ludovisi) is a colossal Roman marble head of the 1st century CE from an acrolithic statue of an idealized and youthful Antonia Minor as the goddess Juno. Added to the Ludovisi collection formed by Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, it is now in the Palazzo Altemps, Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome. Casts of it are to be seen at the University of Cambridge Classics Department Casts Gallery, UK; Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA; the Goethehaus in Weimar, Germany; George Mason University, Johnson Center, Fairfax, USA; the University of Helsinki, Department of Art History, Finland; and the University of Tartu Art Museum, Estonia. The American-British novelist Henry James wrote of the Ludovisi Juno several times including in his first long form novel ''Roderick Hudson ''Roderick Hudson'' is a novel by Henry James. Originally published between January and December 1875 as a serial in ''The Atlantic Monthly'', it is a bildungsroman that traces the develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovisi Throne
The Ludovisi Throne is an ancient sculpted block of white marble hollowed at the back and carved with bas-reliefs on the three outer faces (it is not actually a throne for sitting on). Its authenticity is debated; the majority, who accept it, place it as Western Greek from Magna Graecia and date it from the Severe style it manifests (transitional between Archaic and Early Classical) to the period about 460 BCE. The Ludovisi Throne has been conserved at the Museo Nazionale Romano of Palazzo Altemps, Rome, since its purchase for the Italian State in 1894. Description The central relief is most customarily read as Aphrodite rising from the sea, a motif known as Venus Anadyomene (height 0.9 m, length 1.42 m). The goddess, in clinging diaphanous draperies, is helped by two attendant Horae standing on the shore, who prepared to veil her with a cloth they jointly hold, which hides her from the waist down. The two reliefs on the flanking sides discreetly turn their backs to the mystery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Ludovisi
The Palazzo Montecitorio () is a palace in Rome and the seat of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament. History The palace's name derives from the slight hill on which it is built, which was claimed to be the ''Mons Citatorius'', the hill created in the process of clearing the Campus Martius in Roman times. The building was originally designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for the young Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, nephew of Pope Gregory XV. However, with the death of Gregory XV by 1623, work stopped, and was not restarted until the papacy of Pope Innocent XII (Antonio Pignatelli), when it was completed by the architect Carlo Fontana, who modified Bernini's plan with the addition of a bell gable above the main entrance. The building was designated for public and social functions only, due to Innocent XII's firm antinepotism policies which were in contrast to his predecessors. In 1696 the Curia apostolica (papal law courts) was installed there. Later it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boncompagni Ludovisi Decorative Art Museum
Boncompagni Ludovisi Decorative Arts Museum (''Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi per le arti decorative'', often abbreviated as the Museo Boncompagni), Rome, is the Decorative Arts Museum of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, National Gallery of Modern Art of Rome. The Museum is located at Via Boncompagni, 18, near the elegant and historical Via Veneto. History Opened in 1995 to promote and develop the Italian decorative arts, costume and fashion, Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum is located in the Villino Boncompagni, an Art Nouveau villa, built in the early years of the twentieth century. The “Villino Boncompagni” was donated in 1972 by the princess Blanceflor de Bildt Boncompagni to the Italian Republic to promote art and culture. After the restoration of the building, carried out in the eighties, the “Villino” was given by the Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo, MiBACT (Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage) at the National Gallery of Modern and Cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovisi, Lazio
Ludovisi () is the 16th ''rione'' of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials R. XVI and located within the Municipio I. Its coat of arms depicts three golden bands and a golden dragon on a red background. It is the coat of arms of the noble Ludovisi family, which here owned the beautiful villa bearing the same name. The villa and the surrounding gardens, except for a single building, the Villa Aurora, were destroyed at the end of the 19th century to build the new district. Geography The ''rione'' borders with: * northward, ''quartieri'' Pinciano (Q. III) and Salario (Q. IV); * eastward, Sallustiano (R. XVII); * southward, Trevi (R. II) and Colonna (R. III); * westward, Campo Marzio (R. IV). History The ''rione'' was born after the unification of Italy (such as San Saba, Testaccio and Prati), from the convention, signed in 1886, between the Boncompagni (heirs of the Ludovisi) and the Municipality of Rome. With this act, the Lords of Piombino assigned to the housing develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felice Ludovisi
Felice Ludovisi (27 August 1917 – 2 April 2012) was born in Viterbo in 1917. He studied at the Art Academy in Rome. After obtaining the diploma of artistic maturity and teaching qualification, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University La Sapienza of Rome. After the difficult years of war were over, he took part in a joint exhibition with the most prestigious names in the Roman School: Greco, Purificato, Guttuso, Cesetti, De Chirico. His first solo exhibition, at the gallery San Marco in Rome, dates back to 1946. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Subsequently, his solo exhibitions were set up in all major Italian cities. The most important are: the 1968 retrospective exhibition at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome; the retrospective exhibition "Forty years of painting by Felice Ludovisi" organized by the Lazio Region in 1987 at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome; the retrospective exhibition "The long pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Boncompagni Ludovisi
Francesco Boncompagni Ludovisi (20 October 1886 – 7 June 1955), Prince of Piombino (heir of a former Sovereign Italian State) was an Italian politician. He was born in Foligno in the princely Boncompagni family. He was the 3rd fascist governor of Rome from 1928 to 1935. He served in the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy. He died in Rome, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re .... References External links * 1886 births 1955 deaths 19th-century Italian politicians 20th-century Italian politicians Mayors of Rome Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy {{Italy-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audoenus Ludovisi
Owen Lewis, also known as Lewis Owen ( it, Ludovico Audoeno, la, Audoenus Ludovisi; 28 December 1532 – 14 October 1594) was a Welsh Roman Catholic priest, jurist, administrator and diplomat, who became Bishop of Cassano all'Jonio."Bishop Owen (Audoenus) Lewis (Ludovisi)" ''''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016 Early life Born on 28 December 1532 in in the hamlet of Bodeon, |
Ludovisi Gaul
The ''Ludovisi Gaul'' (sometimes called "The Galatian Suicide") is an ancient Roman statue depicting a Gallic man plunging a sword into his breast as he holds up the dying body of his wife. This sculpture is a marble copy of a now lost Greek bronze original. The ''Ludovisi Gaul'' can be found today in the Palazzo Altemps in Rome. This statue is unique for its time because it was common to depict the victor but instead, the Ludovisi Gaul depicts the defeated. Description The statue depicts a Gaulish man or Galatian Celt who has just killed his wife and is holding her lifeless body in one arm and a sword in another, in an attempt to commit suicide. The sculpture is considered a good example of Hellenistic art because of its dramatic characteristics. The postures of the characters are exaggerated and their bodies contort in every way. Each limb is spread out in different directions, which gives the feeling that the figures are coming to life. The statue is dramatic in many ways ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovisi Ares
The Ludovisi Ares is an Antonine Roman marble sculpture of Mars, a fine 2nd-century 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. Ares/Mars is portrayed as young and beardless and seated on a trophy of arms, while an Eros plays about his feet, drawing attention to the fact that the god of war, in a moment of repose, is presented as a love object. The 18th-century connoisseur Johann Joachim Winckelmann, a man with a practiced eye for male beauty, found the Ludovisi Ares the most beautiful Mars that had been preserved from Antiquity, when he wrote the catalogue of the Ludovisi collection. Rediscovered in 1622, the sculpture was apparently originally part of the temple of Mars (founded in 132 BCE in the southern part of the Campus Martius), of which few traces remain, for it was recovered near the site of the church of San Salvatore in Campo. Pietro Santi Bartoli recorded in his notes th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovisi Dionysus
The over-lifesize marble ''Dionysus with Panther and Satyr'' in the Palazzo Altemps, Rome, is a Roman work of the 2nd century AD, found in the 16th century on the Quirinal Hill at the time foundations were being dug for Palazzo Mattei at Quattro Fontane. The statue was purchased for the Ludovisi collection, where it was first displayed in front of the ''Palazzo Grande'', the main structure of the Villa Ludovisi, and by 1641 in the gallery of sculptures in the ''Casino Capponi'' erected for Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi in the villa's extensive grounds. By 1885, it had been removed to the new Palazzo del Principe di Piombino, nearby in via Veneto. With the rest of the Boncompagni-Ludovisi collection, which was open to the public on Sundays and covered in the guidebooks, and where it had become famous,"The youthful, or so-called Theban Bacchus, was carried to ideal beauty by Praxiteles... The finest statue of this kind is in the villa Ludovisi" (William Smith, ''A New Classical Dic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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