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The House of Orsini is an Italian noble family that was one of the most influential princely families in medieval Italy and Renaissance Rome. Members of the Orsini family include five popes: [1] Stephen II (752–757), Paul I (757–767), Celestine III (1191–1198), Nicholas III (1277–1280), [2] and Benedict XIII (1724–1730).
The Palazzo Orsini is a neoclassic-style palace located on via Borgonuovo #11 in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy. ... It was acquired by the Orsini family, and ...
In 1645 the nobleman Ippolito Lante della Rovere took over the feud of Bomarzo and with it the palace, because of some debts contracted by the Orsini family. [3] After modifying it with the construction of the hall on the first floor, he had the Allegory of War and Peace painted there between 1660 and 1661, a large fresco by Lorenzo Berrettini, son of Pietro da Cortona.
When Orsini's wife died, he had the gardens constructed to cope with his grief. During the 19th century, and deep into the 20th, the garden became overgrown and neglected, but after the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí made a short movie about the park and completed a painting actually based on the park in the 1950s, the Bettini family ...
The family owns the Palazzo Odescalchi in Rome and the Orsini-Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, as well as large estates in Italy. [3] The castle in Bracciano was originally an Orsini family fortress until it was sold to pay debts. The family is currently represented by Carlo Odescalchi (b.1954), whose heir is his son Baldassare Odescalchi (b.1993).
The Palazzo Orsini Pio Righetti (also Palazzo Pio) is a building in the Roman district of Parione. It was built around 1450 and lies on top of the ruins of the Temple of Venus Victrix of the Theatre of Pompey. In the 17th century the facade was redesigned. It overlooks other neighboring areas of Campo de' Fiori and Piazza del Biscione in Rome ...
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were married just after sunset on Nov. 18, 2006, at Castello Orsini-Odescalchi overlooking Lake Bracciano outside of Rome. (Robert Evans via Reuters) (Ho New / reuters)
Pages in category "Orsini family" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. ... Orsini del Balzo; Palazzo Orsini di Gravina; Fabio Orsini;