Giulio Cesare Sacchetti
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Giulio Cesare Sacchetti was an Italian Catholic cardinal and was twice included in the French Court's list of acceptable candidates for the Papacy, in 1644 and 1655.
Cardinal Giulio Cesare Sacchetti, Pietro da Cortona, 1626
Pope Urban VIII
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Pope Urban VIII, born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death, in July 1644. As pope, he expanded the papal territory b
Giulio Cesare Sacchetti
…in the late sixteenth century. Giulio was the uncle of Cardinal Urbano Sacchetti. Sacchetti's father was a trading partner of the Barberini family of Pope Urban VIII and the two families became close. Sacchetti's elder brother, Marcello Sacchetti, became papal treasurer to Pope Urban VIII and a prominent patron of…
Portrait by Pietro da Cortona, c. 1624–27 (oil on canvas, Capitoline Museums)
c. 1598 painting of Maffeo Barberini at age 30 by Caravaggio.
Gold quadrupla coin of Pope Urban VIII, struck at the Avignon mint, dated 1629
The icon of the La Madonna della Febbre which was crowned in 1631 making it as the first Marian image to receive a pontifical coronation.