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Alessandro Damasceni Peretti di Montalto (1571 – 2 June 1623) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal Bishop. He received the title from his great-uncle Felice Piergentile after the latter was elected Pope Sixtus V on 24 April 1585, in the consistory on 13 May, and was installed as Cardinal Deacon of San Girolamo dei Croati on 14 June ...
Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ( Montalto delle Marche, 1571 – Roma, 2 giugno 1623) è stato un cardinale italiano . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Genealogia episcopale. 3 Ascendenza. 4 Voci correlate. 5 Altri progetti. 6 Collegamenti esterni. Biografia. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti nacque nel 1571 a Montalto delle Marche.
PERETTI DAMASCENI, Alessandro. Simone Testa. – Nacque, primo di quattro figli, nel 1571 a Montalto, nelle Marche, da Fabio Damasceni, gentiluomo romano, e da Maria Felice Mignucci Peretti, figlia di Camilla, sorella di Felice Peretti, il papa Sisto V. Estintasi la progenie maschile dei Peretti con la morte di Francesco, fratello di Maria ...
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Bernini had already been commissioned by Cardinal Montalto to create the Neptune and Triton fountain for his gardens at the Villa Montalto on the outskirts of Rome, and was involved in the commissioning of the David statue that eventually ended up in the Villa Borghese. But the precise reason behind this bust is unclear; given that Cardinal Montalt...
The bust was recorded as being in the Villa Montalto in the early 1660s and then in the "Casa Peretti" in 1682. The bust arrived in Hamburg Kunsthalle after 1910, being donated as part of the collection of the Anglo-German Sir John Henry Schroder.
Although only recently re-discovered by art historians the sculpture is well appreciated. Hess comments that "the expression of deep thought and concentration on the cardinal ... gives a great sense of animation to this bust. Bernini has included remarkably naturalistic details, such as the fine hair of his unshaven cheeks, the fleshly lower lip .....
Hess, Catherine (2009). "Ritratto del Cardinal Alessandro Damasceni Peretti di Montalto". I marmi vivi: Bernini e la nascita del ritratto barocco.Lavin, Irving (1985). "Bernini's bust of Cardinal Montalto". Burlington Magazine. Vol. 127.Avery, Charles (1997). Bernini: Genius of the Baroque. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 9780500286333.Baldinucci, Filippo (2006) [1682]. The Life of Bernini. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271730769.Bernini, Domenico (2011) [1713]. The Life of Giano Lorenzo Bernini. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271037486.Dempsey, Charles (2000). Inventing the Renaissance Putto. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina. ISBN 9780807826164.- Life-size
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Grand-nephew of His Holiness. He was also known as Cardinal di Montalto. Uncle of Cardinal Francesco Peretti di Montalto (1641). He is also listed as Alexander Peretti; as Alessandro Peretti Montalto Damasceni; and as Alessandro Peretti Damasceni. Education. The Pope himself took care of Alessandro's education.
Sixtus V created 33 cardinals in eight consistories during his reign, which included his grandnephew Alessandro Peretti di Montalto and his future successor Ippolito Aldobrandini who would later become Pope Clement VIII.
Alessandro Damasceni Peretti di Montalto was an Italian Catholic Cardinal Bishop. He received the title from his great-uncle Felice Peretti after the latter was elected Pope Sixtus V on 24 April 1585, in the consistory on 13 May, and was installed as Cardinal Deacon of San Girolamo dei Croati on 14 June 1585; the cardinal was then fourteen ...
