Scipione Borghese

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Scipione Borghese was a powerful 17th-century Italian cardinal and art collector renowned for his patronage of Baroque artists such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini and for founding Rome’s Villa Borghese art collection.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Catholic cardinal
Italian nobleman
art collector
human
patron of the arts
activeIn 17th-century Rome
alsoKnownAs Cardinal Scipione Borghese
Scipione Borghese
surface form: Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese
appointedCardinalBy Pope Paul V
birthName Scipione Caffarelli
burialPlace Santa Maria Maggiore
collectorOf Caravaggio’s Boy with a Basket of Fruit
David with the Head of Goliath by Caravaggio
surface form: Caravaggio’s David with the Head of Goliath

Madonna and Child with St. Anne (Madonna dei Palafrenieri) by Caravaggio
surface form: Caravaggio’s Madonna and Child with St. Anne (dei Palafrenieri)
commissionedWork Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius (Bernini)
Bernini’s sculpture Apollo and Daphne
surface form: Apollo and Daphne (Bernini)

David (Bernini sculpture)
surface form: David (Bernini)

Bernini’s The Rape of Proserpina
surface form: The Rape of Proserpina (Bernini)
countryOfCitizenship Papal States
dateOfBirth 1577-09-01
dateOfCardinalate 1605
dateOfDeath 1633-10-02
era Baroque
surface form: Baroque period
founded Galleria Borghese
surface form: Borghese Gallery

Villa Borghese gardens
surface form: Villa Borghese Pinciana
knownFor creating one of the earliest public art collections in Rome
extensive collection of ancient sculpture
major patronage of Baroque art
supporting the early career of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
languageSpoken Italian
Latin
memberOfFamily Borghese family
notableWork formation of the Borghese art collection
patronOf Caravaggio
Domenichino
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Guido Reni
Peter Paul Rubens
placeOfBirth Rome
placeOfDeath Rome
positionHeld Archbishop of Bologna
Bishop of Frascati
Bishop of Sabina
Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals
Cardinal priest
Cardinal-nephew of Pope Paul V
relative Pope Paul V
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
residence Villa Borghese gardens
surface form: Villa Borghese Pinciana

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The Rape of Proserpina patron Scipione Borghese
Borghese hasNotableMember Scipione Borghese
Borghese hasNotableMember Scipione Borghese
this entity surface form: Scipione Borghese (1871–1927)
Borghese producedCardinal Scipione Borghese
this entity surface form: Scipione Borghese (cardinal)
Borghese family notableMember Scipione Borghese
The Hunt of Diana by Domenichino commissionedBy Scipione Borghese
subject surface form: The Hunt of Diana
Bernini’s sculpture Apollo and Daphne patron Scipione Borghese
subject surface form: Apollo and Daphne
Scipione Borghese alsoKnownAs Scipione Borghese
this entity surface form: Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese