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Alexander VII

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Alexander VII (1599–1667)

Pope 1655–67. He succeeded Innocent X and was a patron of the arts, which he much preferred to affairs of state – he was responsible for the colonnade of St Peter's. He supported the Society of Jesus in its conflict with the Jansenists.
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It was the one genre in which the artist worked from the beginning to the end of his career--from the Bishop Giovanni Battista Santoni he carved for Santa Prassede in Rome, probably at around the age of twelve, to the central figure of the tomb he designed for Pope Alexander VII in Saint Peter's Basilica, nearly seven decades later.
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In her ambitious and thorough study of urban planning in Rome under Pope Alexander VII Chigi (1655-67), Dorothy Metzger Habel traces the evolution of six papal building projects from conception to fruition (or abandonment), revealing a unity between them that is not apparent in general-audience books on the subject.
The Urban Development of Rome in the Age of Alexander VII by Slominski, Suzy / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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