Paolo Giordano II Orsini (1591–1656) was an Italian nobleman,

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s, poet, and amateur painter.

Biography

He grew in Florence, where he attended the Medici court. On the death of his father Virginio Orsini in 1615, he inherited the dukedom of Bracciano. In Rome in 1622 he became the second husband of the widowed

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(ca. 1630–1635), the last survivor of the Appiani family He was also made a prince of the Holy Roman Empire by Ferdinand II on 18 July 1623. He lived in his castle at Lake Bracciano, near Rome, where he assembled an art collection including paintings by Tintoretto,

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, and

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, prints by

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and Ottavio Leoni, sculptures by

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and Johann Jakob Kornmann, among others. He exchanged correspondence on the state of arts in Italy with Christina, Queen of Sweden. He died in 1656.The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Bust of Paolo Giordano II Orsini, Duke of Bracciano
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* 1591 births 1656 deaths Dukes of Bracciano Paolo Giordano II Princes of the Holy Roman Empire 16th-century people of the Holy Roman Empire 17th-century people of the Holy Roman Empire 16th-century Italian nobility 17th-century Italian nobility {{Italy-noble-stub