Giovanni Vasanzio
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Giovanni Vasanzio or Jan van Santen was a Dutch-born architect, garden designer and engraver who spent his mature career in Rome, where he arrived in the 1580s.
erected in 1613, the villa Pinciana (now the Villa Borghese) built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, and after his death finished by his assistant Giovanni Vasanzio
Scipione Borghese
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Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese was an Italian cardinal, art collector and patron of the arts. A member of the Borghese family, he was the patron of the painter Caravaggio and the artist Bernini. His leg
Portrait by Ottavio Leoni
The Villa Borghese
San Crisogono
Apollo and Daphne, 1622–1625, Bernini commission (Galleria Borghese, Rome)