Paolo Giordano II Orsini
Paolo Giordano II Orsini (1591–1656) was an Italian nobleman, Patron of arts, poet, and amateur painter.
Biography
He was the firstborn of Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano and his wife Flavia Peretti, a niece of Pope Sixtus V. He grew in Florence, where he attended the Medici court. On the death of his father in 1615, he inherited the dukedom of Bracciano.
In Rome in 1622 he became the second husband of the widowed Isabella Appiani (c. 1630–1635), the last survivor of the Appiani family[1][2] He was also made a prince of the Holy Roman Empire by Ferdinand II on 18 July 1623.
He lived in his castle at Lake Bracciano, near Rome, where he assembled an art collection including paintings by Tintoretto, Salvator Rosa, and Daniele da Volterra, prints by Albrecht Dürer and Ottavio Leoni, sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Johann Jakob Kornmann, among others. Paolo exchanged correspondence on the state of arts in Italy with Christina, Queen of Sweden.[3] He died in 1656.[4]
References
- ↑ Script error: No such module "In lang". L. Cappelletti, Storia della città e Stato di Piombino, Livorno 1897
- ↑ Script error: No such module "In lang". M. Carrara, Signori e Principi di Piombino, Pontedera 1996.
- ↑ Orsini, Paolo Giordano, II (Italian patron, poet, and amateur artist, 1591–1656)
- ↑ The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Bust of Paolo Giordano II Orsini, Duke of Bracciano
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
| Preceded by | Duke of Bracciano 1615–1656 |
Succeeded by Ferdinando Orsini |
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