Word: arcadi
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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Christina befriended the Italian sculptor Bernini, set up her own art center in 1674 called the Accademia degli Arcadi in imitation of classical antiquity, and stocked it with a museum of oils, many of which she had brought as baggage. Her Palazzo Riario near the Vatican became a "stopping place for every prominent and noble art lover of the age. While they proclaimed the era "il seicento de Cristina" she peeked and listened through a window concealed in the ceiling of her painting gallery. And when she died at the age of 61, Pope Innocent XI broke precedent by having...
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