Agostino Chigi
Italian banker
Also known as: il Magnifico
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influence in Rome
- In Chigi Family
…more than local eminence was Agostino Chigi, “il Magnifico” (c. 1465–1520), a merchant prince who, as a banker in Rome, developed one of the richest business houses in Europe, lending money to popes, administering church revenue, and spending lavishly on display and the patronage of artists and writers. It was…
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patronage of Raphael
- In Raphael: Last years in Rome of Raphael
In 1513 the banker Agostino Chigi, whose Villa Farnesina Raphael had already decorated, commissioned him to design and decorate his funerary chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo. In 1514 Leo X chose him to work on the basilica of St. Peter’s alongside Bramante; when Bramante died…
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