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Scipione Borghese Caffarelli (Artena, 1 de septiembre de 1577 - Roma, 2 de octubre de 1633) fue un cardenal católico, arzobispo de Bolonia (1610-1612). Era sobrino de Camillo Borghese, quien fue elegido papa como Pablo V en 1605.
Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese (Artena, 1º settembre 1577 – Roma, 2 ottobre 1633) è stato un cardinale, arcivescovo cattolico e collezionista d'arte italiano, nipote di papa Paolo V
- Biography
- Building Projects
- Art Collector
Early life and cardinalship
He was born in Artena with name Scipione Caffarelli, the son of Francesco Caffarelli and Ortensia Borghese. Because his father ran into financial difficulties, Scipione's education was paid for by his maternal uncle Camillo Borghese. Upon Camillo's election to the papacy as Pope Paul V in 1605, he quickly conferred a cardinalshipon Scipione and gave him the right to use the Borghese name and coat of arms. In the classic pattern of papal nepotism, Cardinal Borghese wielded enormous power as th...
Cardinal
Scipione received many honours from his uncle. He became superintendent general of the Papal States, legate in Avignon, archpriest of the Lateran and Vatican basilicas, prefect of the Signature of Grace, Abbot of Subiaco and San Gregorio da Sassola on the Coelian, and librarian of the Roman Catholic Church. He also assumed the offices of Grand Penitentiary, secretary of the Apostolic Briefs, Archbishop of Bologna, protector of Germany and the Habsburg Netherlands, of the Orders of Dominicans,...
Private life
Contemporaries commented on the near-public scandals that resulted on occasions from Scipione's possible homosexuality, reflected in his taste for collecting art with strong homoerotic overtones. In 1605, Scipione allegedly angered his uncle the pope by bringing Stefano Pignatelli, to whom Scipione was closely attached, to Rome. According to the later writer Gaetano Moroni, Scipione:[citation needed] Scipione subsequently fell into a long and serious sickness, and only recovered when Pignatel...
Development of Gardens
Borghese took special interest in the development of the extensive gardens undertaken by various artists at his Roman residences, the Palazzo Borghese on the Quirinal (primarily 1610-16) and the Villa Borghese(initiated in 1613 and elaborated for the rest of the Cardinal's life). Both these influential gardens featured innovative elements such as waterfalls, and they incorporated dense groves of trees, which provided rural seclusion within the city.
Restoration of Churches
In the first half of his career, Scipione’s church building was associated with his commendatrial or titular duties; in the latter half his public patronage was more wide-ranging, intervening at San Crisogono, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Santa Chiara a Casa Pia, San Gregorio Magno, as well as building new churches in the nearby towns of Montefortino and Monte Compatri. During the Ludovisi papacy the major focus of Borghese’s ecclesiastical patronage was on commemora...
Borghese used the immense wealth that he acquired as Cardinal Nephew to assemble one of the largest and most impressive art collections in Europe. The Borghese Collection began around a collection of paintings by Caravaggio, Raphael, and Titian, and of ancient Roman art. Scipione also bought widely from leading painters and sculptors of his day. Ev...
Scipione Cardinal Caffarelli-Borghese (born 1576, died 2 Oct 1633) Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina Consistory - 1605 : Created Cardinal Conclave - 1621 : Participated
- October 2, 1633
With the ascension to the papal throne of Paul V Borghese (1605-1621), his cardinal nephew, Scipione Caffarelli Borghese (1577-1633), began to intensely commission architecture and at the same time to acquire works of art that would make his collection one of the largest of his time.
Scipione Caffarelli Borghese war ein italienischer Geistlicher, Bischof und Kardinal der Römischen Kirche.
Los bustos son de un cuarto de largo, y muestran a Escipión Borghese con su manto y birrete, según su posición como cardenal de la Iglesia romana. El movimiento y la vivacidad del personaje son características esenciales del busto.
