Agostino Andrea Chigi was an Italian banker and patron of the Renaissance.
Portrait of Agostino Chigi
Details of the decorations of the Loggia di Psiche in the Villa Farnesina, Agostino Chigi's villa in Rome.
Pietro Aretino was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics. He was one of the most influential writers of his time and an outspoken critic of the powerful. Owing to his communications and sympathies with religious reformers, he is considered to have been a Nicodemite Protestant.
Pietro Aretino, by Titian (Frick Collection)
St Bartholomew (Aretino was the model) displaying his flayed skin, in Michelangelo's The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel
The Death of Pietro Aretino by Anselm Feuerbach
Portrait of Pietro Aretino, by Titian, 1545 (Palazzo Pitti)