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Alessandro Damasceni Peretti di Montalto (Montalto delle Marche, 1571 - 1623) foi um cardeal italiano. Biografia. Era filho de Fabio Damasceni e Maria Felice Mignucci Peretti, sobrinha do papa pelo lado materno. Como o seu tio-avô antes dele, foi conhecido como "Cardeal de Montalto".
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 ...
Era zio del cardinale Francesco Peretti di Montalto (1641). Intrapresa la carriera ecclesiastica, favorito dal prozio, entrò prestissimo a far parte del clero romano. Fu creato cardinale nel concistoro del 13 maggio 1585 ad appena 14 anni di età e fino alla nomina del cardinale Odoardo Farnese , effettuata da Gregorio XIV , è ...
O Busto de Alessandro Peretti di Montalto é um retrato escultural produzido entre 1622 e 1623 pelo artista italiano Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Foi considerada uma obra perdida até ser identificada na década de 1980 e declarada um autêntico trabalho de Bernini.
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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 .....
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Per quanto riguarda le arti figurative, Peretti commissionò, al principio del Seicento, il ciclo di undici storie della vita di Alessandro Magno, che doveva adornare la villa Montalto sull’Esquilino.
Alessandro Damasceni Peretti di Montalto 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 1585; the cardinal was then fourteen ...
