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| Anonymous Roman printmaker Portrait of Pope Urban VIII Barberini with dedication by Vincenzo Giustiniani engraving ca. 1623 British Museum |
"The evolving development of absolute papal power was personified by Urban VIII Barberini (reg. 1623-44). On one occasion, for example, the Roman city government requested instructions from the pope concerning the festivities that were to be held – at the urging of the Imperial Ambassador – in honor of the election of Ferdinand III, king of Bohemia and Hungary, as King of the Romans (i.e., the official heir of his father, the Holy Roman Emperor). According to Gigli, Urban was said to have replied crisply, "in Rome he was the King of the Romans, and therefore nothing was to be done about the matter." The Roman pontiff was now seated on the throne of the Caesars."
– Maria Giulia Barberini, in Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome, edited by Stefanie Walker and Frederick Hammond (Yale University Press, 1999)
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| Claude Mellan Portrait of Vincenzo Giustiniani (frontispiece to the printed catalog of his collection of ancient sculpture) engraving 1631 British Museum |
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| Claude Mellan Portrait of Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (scholarly colleague of Cassiano dal Pozzo) engraving 1637 British Museum |
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| Ottavio Leoni Portrait of Giambattista Marino (Neapolitan Mannerist poet and early patron of Nicolas Poussin) engraving 1624 British Museum |
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| Johann Friedrich Greuter after Simon Vouet Portrait of Giambattista Marino (Neapolitan Mannerist poet and early patron of Nicolas Poussin) engraving ca. 1630-40 British Museum |
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| Anonymous printmaker Portrait of Annibale Carracci, painter of Bologna engraving 17th century British Museum |
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| Anonymous printmaker after Anthony van Dyck Portrait of Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy etching & engraving for book illustration 17th century British Museum |
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| Claude Randon Portrait of Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy engraving ca. 1660-80 British Museum |
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| Francesco Villamena Portrait of English architect Inigo Jones engraving ca. 1615-20 British Museum |
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| Claude Mellan Portrait of Henrietta of England youngest daughter of Charles I engraving ca. 1655-61 British Museum |
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| Claude Mellan Minerva guiding the infant Louis XIV engraving ca. 1640 British Museum |
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| Claude Mellan Allegory of Fame bearing shield of Louis XIV engraving after 1643 British Museum |
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| Francesco Villamena after Cavaliere d'Arpino Maiestas figure painted for the funeral of Pope Sixtus V engraving ca. 1590-1630 British Museum |
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| Claude Mellan Letter O with Open Eye engraving ca. 1639-43 British Museum |