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Chigi Family

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The Chigi family is a Roman princely family of Sienese extraction descended from the counts of Ardenghesca, which possessed castles in the Maremma, southern Tuscany. [1]

75 relations: Agostino Chigi, Albano Laziale, Alessandro Albani, Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi, Altieri family, Anna Maria Taigi, Arcangelo Corelli, Ariccia, Arts in Rome, Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo, Benedetto Giovannelli, Bernardino Mei, Brooke Shields, Capitoline Venus, Cardinal-nephew, Carlo Fea, Castel Gandolfo, Castelfusano, Chigi, Chigi vase, Corsican Guard, Duchy of Bracciano, Flavio Chigi (1711–1771), Fontana di Piazza d'Aracoeli, Formello, Frances Minto Elliot, Francesco Trevisani, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Giovanni Battista Maini, Giovanni Filippo Apolloni, Giovanni Mansionario, Italian Baroque, Jacques Courtois, Jan de Momper, List of banking families, List of obelisks in Rome, List of popes, Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, Marco Torlonia, 6th Prince of Civitella-Cesi, Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi, Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesi, Marshal of the Holy Roman Church and the Sacred Conclave, Melchiorre Cafà, Noble House, Palazzo Chigi, Palazzo Chigi (disambiguation), Palazzo Chigi alla Postierla, Palazzo Chigi of Ariccia, Palazzo Farnese, Palazzo Grimani di Santa Maria Formosa, ..., Palazzo San Galgano, Papal nobility, Pietro Tacchi Venturi, Pope Alexander VII, Porta del Popolo, Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg, Prossedi, Roman Castles, Rome, Rome municipal election, 1993, Rospigliosi family, Sacrofano, San Gregorio Magno al Celio, San Raimondo (Siena), Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli, Santa Maria della Pace, St. Peter's Square, The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy, Via del Corso, Villa Albani, Villa di Geggiano, Castelnuovo Berardenga, Villa Sacchetti at Castelfusano, Vincenzo Meucci, Virgin and Child with an Angel (Botticelli). Expand index (25 more) »

Agostino Chigi

Agostino Andrea Chigi (29 November 1466 – April 11, 1520) was an Italian banker and patron of the Renaissance.

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Albano Laziale

Albano Laziale (Albanum, Romanesco: Arbano) is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, on the Alban Hills, in Latium, central Italy.

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Alessandro Albani

Alessandro Albani (15 October 1692 – 11 December 1779) was a prominent jurist and papal administrator, remembered best as a leading collector of antiquities and art patron in Rome.

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Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi

Don Alessandro Torlonia (7 December 1911 – 1 May/12 May 1986) was the 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi.

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Altieri family

The Altieri family was an ancient noble family of Rome, present in the history of the city since the Middle Ages.

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Anna Maria Taigi

Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (29 May 1769 - 9 June 1837) - born Anna Maria Giannetti - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed member from the Secular Trinitarians.

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Arcangelo Corelli

Arcangelo Corelli (17 February 1653 – 8 January 1713) was an Italian violinist and composer of the Baroque era.

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Ariccia

Ariccia (Latin: Aricia) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, central Italy, 16 miles (25 km) south-east of Rome.

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Arts in Rome

This article covers the arts and similar forms of culture in the Italian city of Rome.

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Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo

The Parish Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo (Basilica Parrocchiale Santa Maria del Popolo) is a titular church and a minor basilica in Rome run by the Augustinian order.

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Benedetto Giovannelli

Benedetto Giovannelli (1602–1676) was an architect from Siena.

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Bernardino Mei

The Italian painter and engraver Bernardino Mei (1612/15 – 1676) worked in a Baroque manner in his native Siena and in Rome, finding patronage above all in the Chigi family.

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Brooke Shields

Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and model.

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Capitoline Venus

The Capitoline Venus is a type of statue of Venus, specifically one of several Venus Pudica (modest Venus) types (others include the Venus de' Medici type), of which several examples exist.

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Cardinal-nephew

A cardinal-nephew (cardinalis nepos; cardinale nipote; valido de su tío; prince de fortune)Signorotto and Visceglia, 2002, p. 114.

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Carlo Fea

Carlo Fea (4 June 1753 - 18 March 1836) was an Italian archaeologist.

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Castel Gandolfo

Castel Gandolfo (Castrum Gandulphi; colloquially Castello in the Castelli Romani dialects) is a town located southeast of Rome in the Lazio region of Italy.

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Castelfusano

Castelfusano is an urban park in the comune of Rome.

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Chigi

Chigi may refer to.

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Chigi vase

The Chigi vase is a Protocorinthian olpe, or pitcher, that is the name vase of the Chigi Painter.

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Corsican Guard

The Corsican Guard (Italian and Corsican: Guardia Corsa) was a military unit of the Papal States composed exclusively of Corsican mercenaries on duty in Rome, having the functions of an urban militia and guard for the Pope.

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Duchy of Bracciano

The Duchy of Bracciano was a fief of the Papal States, centred on lago di Bracciano and the town of Bracciano itself and ruled by a branch of the Orsini family with the title of Lord (from 1417) and Duke (1560-1696).

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Flavio Chigi (1711–1771)

Cardinal Flavio Chigi Flavio Chigi (8 September 1711 – 12 July 1771), Prince of Farnese, Duke of Ariccia and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.

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Fontana di Piazza d'Aracoeli

The fountain in the Piazza d'Aracoeli is a fountain in Rome (Italy), located at the base of the Capitoline Hill, in the little square with the same name.

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Formello

Formello is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome.

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Frances Minto Elliot

Frances Minto Elliot (1820–1898) was a prolific English writer, primarily of non-fiction works on the social history of Italy, Spain, and France and travelogues.

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Francesco Trevisani

Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni ''by Francesco Trevisani. The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, England. Francesco Trevisani (April 9, 1656 – July 30, 1746) was an Italian painter, active in the period called either early Rococo or late Baroque (barochetto).

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (also Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect.

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Giovanni Battista Maini

Giovanni Battista Maini (6 February 1690 – 29 July 1752) was an Italian sculptor of the Late-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.

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Giovanni Filippo Apolloni

Giovanni Filippo Apolloni (1620 – 15 May 1688) was an Italian poet and librettist.

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Giovanni Mansionario

Giovanni de Matociis (born probably in the second half of the 13th Century and died in December 1337), commonly called Giovanni Mansionario from his administrative office in the cathedral of Verona, was an early Italian humanist, a forerunner of Petrarch.

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Italian Baroque

Italian Baroque (or Barocco) is a stylistic period in Italian history and art that spanned from the late 16th century to the early 18th century.

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Jacques Courtois

Jacques Courtois or Giacomo Cortese, called il Borgognone or le Bourgignon (12 December 1621 - 14 November 1675) was a French-Italian painter, draughtsman and etcher.

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Jan de Momper

Jan de Momper, also known as Giovanni de Momper (16 August 1614 or 1617 - 1684/1704) was a Flemish landscape painter who, after training in Antwerp, had a successful career in Rome where he worked for an elite clientele.

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List of banking families

Banking families are families which have been involved in banking for multiple generations, in the modern era generally as owners or co-owners of banks, often named for their families.

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List of obelisks in Rome

The city of Rome harbours the most obelisks in the world.

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List of popes

This chronological list of popes corresponds to that given in the Annuario Pontificio under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani" (The Supreme Pontiffs of Rome), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes.

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Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere

Fra' Ludovico Chigi della Rovere-Albani (10 July 1866 – 14 November 1951) was the 76th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1931 to 1951.

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Marco Torlonia, 6th Prince of Civitella-Cesi

Don Marco Alfonso Torlonia, 6th Prince of Civitella-Cesi (2 July 1937 – 5 December 2014) was the son of Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi and his wife, Infanta Beatriz of Spain, daughter of King Alfonso XIII of Spain.

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Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi

Donna Marina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi (22 October 1916 – 15 September 1960) was an Italian-American aristocrat best known as the paternal grandmother of the actress and model Brooke Shields.

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Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesi

Marino Torlonia (29 July 1861 – 5 March 1933), 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesi, duke of Poli and Guadagnolo, was an Italian nobleman.

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Marshal of the Holy Roman Church and the Sacred Conclave

The Marshal of the Holy Roman Church and Sacred Conclave was an hereditary official in the Pontifical Household before Pope Paul VI's reform of the papal court in his motu proprio Pontificalis Domus of 1968.

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Melchiorre Cafà

Melchiorre Cafà (1636–1667), born Melchiorre Gafà and also known as Caffà, Gafa, Gaffar or Gafar, was a Maltese Baroque sculptor.

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Noble House

A Noble House is an aristocratic family or kinship group, usually British or European, either currently or historically of national or international significance, and usually associated with one or more hereditary titles, the most senior of which will be held by the "Head of the House" or patriarch.

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Palazzo Chigi

The Palazzo Chigi is a palace or noble residence in Rome and the official residence of the Prime Minister of the Italian Republic.

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Palazzo Chigi (disambiguation)

Palazzo Chigi may refer to different palaces in Italy.

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Palazzo Chigi alla Postierla

The Palazzo Chigi all Postierla, but sometimes referred also to as Chigi-Piccolomini or Piccolomini-Adami is a Renaissance style urban palace localized on Via del Capitano #1, corner Piazza Postierla, in the Terzo di Città, in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy.

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Palazzo Chigi of Ariccia

The Palazzo Chigi of Ariccia was the ducal palace of the Chigi family in the center of the town of Ariccia, near Rome.

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Palazzo Farnese

Palazzo Farnese or Farnese Palace is one of the most important High Renaissance palaces in Rome.

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Palazzo Grimani di Santa Maria Formosa

The Palazzo Grimani of Santa Maria Formosa is a State museum, located in Venice in the Castello district, near Campo Santa Maria Formosa.

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Palazzo San Galgano

The Palazzo San Galgano is a Renaissance style urban palace located on via Roma number 47, in Terzo Camollia of the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy.

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Papal nobility

The papal nobility is the nobility of the Holy See.

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Pietro Tacchi Venturi

Pietro Tacchi Venturi (1861—March 18, 1956New York Times. 1956, March 19. "Obituary 3--No Title". p. 31.) was a Jesuit priest and historian who served as the unofficial liaison between Benito Mussolini, the Fascist leader of Italy from 1922 to 1943, and popes Pius XI and Pius XII.

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Pope Alexander VII

Pope Alexander VII (13 February 159922 May 1667), born Fabio Chigi, was Pope from 7 April 1655 to his death in 1667.

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Porta del Popolo

Porta del Popolo is a gate of the Aurelian Walls in Rome (Italy).

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Princes of the Holy Roman Empire

Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsfürst, princeps imperii, see also: Fürst) was a title attributed to a hereditary ruler, nobleman or prelate recognised as such by the Holy Roman Emperor.

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Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg

Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg (born Sibilla Sandra Weiller y Torlonia on 12 June 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is the wife of Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg.

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Prossedi

Prossedi (locally Prussedi) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Latina in the Italian region Lazio, located about southeast of Rome and about east of Latina.

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Roman Castles

The so-called Roman Castles (Castelli Romani in Italian) are a group of comunes in the Metropolitan City of Rome.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Rome municipal election, 1993

Municipal elections were held in Rome on 21 November 1993 with a second round on 5 December.

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Rospigliosi family

The Rospigliosi family is an ancient noble Italian family from Pistoia.

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Sacrofano

Sacrofano is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about north of Rome.

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San Gregorio Magno al Celio

San Gregorio Magno al Celio, also known as San Gregorio al Celio or simply San Gregorio, is a church in Rome, Italy, which is part of a monastery of monks of the Camaldolese branch of the Benedictine Order.

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San Raimondo (Siena)

San Raimondo, also called San Raimondo al Refugio, is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located on the intersection of Via del Refugio and Via di Fiera Vecchia, in the Terzo of Camollia of the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy.

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Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli

Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli is a 16th-century church in Rome.

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Santa Maria della Pace

Santa Maria della Pace is a church in Rome, central Italy, not far from Piazza Navona.

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St. Peter's Square

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The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy

The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy is a historical fiction novel written by Jacopo della Quercia.

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Via del Corso

The Via del Corso (ancient Via Lata, the urban stretch of Via Flaminia), is a main street in the historical centre of Rome.

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Villa Albani

The Villa Albani (later Villa Albani-Torlonia) in Rome was built at the Via Salaria for Cardinal Alessandro Albani, nephew of Pope Clement XI, between 1747 and 1767 by the architect Carlo Marchionni.

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Villa di Geggiano, Castelnuovo Berardenga

The Villa di Geggiano is a neoclassical-style rural palace located on Via di Geggiano 1, in the neighborhood of Pianella of the commune of Castelnuovo Berardenga, in province of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy.

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Villa Sacchetti at Castelfusano

The Villa Sacchetti is a historical building at Castelfusano, near Ostia Antica, Rome, Italy.

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Vincenzo Meucci

Vincenzo Meucci (1694–1766) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.

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Virgin and Child with an Angel (Botticelli)

Virgin and Child with an Angel also known as Our Lady of the Eucharist (Italian: Madonna dell'Eucarestia) is a tempera on wood panel painting by Sandro Botticelli made c.1470.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chigi_Family

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