Cardinals

Andrea Bregno
Cardinal Raffaele Sansoni Riario
(Papal Nephew)
ca. 1478
terracotta
(modello for marble sculpture)
Bode Museum, Berlin

attributed to Jean Clouet
Odet de Coligny, Cardinal de Châtillon
ca. 1535
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Corneille de Lyon
Cardinal Robert de Lénoncourt
ca. 1540
oil on panel
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy

attributed to El Greco
Charles de Guise, Cardinal of Lorraine
1572
oil on canvas
Kunsthaus Zürich

Jan Kraeck (Giovanni Carracha)
Prince Maurice of Savoy in Cardinal's Robes
ca. 1597
oil on canvas
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Gianlorenzo Bernini
Cardinal Alessandro Peretti Montalto
1622-23
marble
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Ottavio Leoni
Cardinal Scipione Borghese
(Papal Nephew)
ca. 1625
oil on canvas
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)
Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti
ca. 1626
oil on canvas
Galleria Borghese, Rome

workshop of Peter Paul Rubens
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Alessandro Algardi
Cardinal Laudivio Zacchia
ca. 1635-40
marble
Bode Museum, Berlin

Justus Sustermans
Cardinal Carlo de' Medici
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Robert Nanteuil
Jean-François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz
1650
engraving
Milwaukee Art Museum

Wallerant Vaillant
Cardinal Jules Mazarin
1660
pastel
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Pompeo Batoni
Cardinal Jean-François Joseph de Rochechouart
1762
oil on canvas
Saint Louis Art Museum

Francesco de Mura
Cardinal Antonino Sersale
1756
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Charles-Édouard Delort
Cardinal, Cleric and Serving-Man
ca. 1880
oil on canvas
National Gallery, Athens

Faustus:

Nay stay my gentle Mephostophilis,
And grant me my request, and then I goe.
Thou know'st within the compasse of eight daies,
We view'd the face of heaven, of earth and hell.
So high our Dragons soar'd into the aire,
That looking downe the earth appear'd to me,
No bigger then my hand in quantity.
There did we view the Kingdomes of the world,
And what might please mine eye, I there beheld.
Then in this shew let me an Actor be,
That this proud Pope may Faustus cunning see.

Mephostophilis:

Let it be so my Faustus, but first stay,
And view their triumphs, as they passe this way.
And then devise what best contents thy minde.
By cunning in thine Art to crosse the Pope,
Or dash the pride of his solemnity;
To make his Monkes and Abbots stand like Apes,
And point like Antiques at his triple Crowne:
To beate the beades about the Friers Pates,
Or clap huge hornes, upon the Cardinals heads:
Or any villany thou canst devise,
And I'le performe it Faustus: heark they come:
This day shall make thee be admire'd in Rome.

– Christopher Marlow, Doctor Faustus, Act III, scene i (1592)