Word: ludovisi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi of Rome founded one of the great Greek art collections of the 17th Century...
...sculptor. The armless, headless Venus belongs to Rome's Terme Museum. ¶ Raphael's graceful Sposalizio (Marriage of the Virgin) from Milan's Brera Gallery. Painted about 1503, the Sposalizio, an early Raphael, is one of the world's best loved pictures. ¶ The famed "Ludovisi Throne,"* 5th Century B.C. Greek bas-relief, called The Birth of Venus. This work, thought to be an altar to Aphrodite, is one of the monuments of Greek art. ¶ Giorgione's priceless small landscape The Tempest. This enigmatic allegory, one of Giorgione's greatest paintings, is from...