Titian - Portrait of Antonio Cardinal Pallavicini - WGA21114

Antonio Gentile Pallavicini (

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...

, 1441 – 1507) was an Italian Cardinal. He was considered papabile in 1492.

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from April until December 1503; later bishop of Palestrina. He was bishop of Ventimiglia from 1484; then bishop of Ourense in Spain from 1486. From 1484 to 1489 he was Papal Datary in the Roman Curia, and therefore did not reside in Ventimiglia. In 1493, the pope Alexander VI appointed him bishop of

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, taking over from Cesare Borgia, against the will of the monarchs of Navarre, and finding instead the veiled support of Ferdinand II of Aragon. There is a well-known portrait by

Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian (Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, nea ...

. He was buried in the

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but his tomb was transferred to the Montemirabile Chapel in

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in 1596. Antonio's nephew was the cardinal

Giovanni Battista Pallavicino Giovanni Battista Pallavicino (1480–1524) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal. Biography Giovanni Battista Pallavicino was born in Genoa in 1480, the son of Cipriano Pallavicino and Bianca Gattilusi. He was the nephew of Cardi ...

(1480–1524).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pallavicini Gentili 1441 births 1507 deaths 16th-century Italian cardinals Cardinal-bishops of Frascati Cardinal-bishops of Palestrina Bishops of Ourense 15th-century Italian cardinals 15th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops

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