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| has gloss | eng: The Eleven Caesars are eleven paintings of half-busts of Roman emperors painted by Titian for Federico II, Duke of Mantua. The original busts were by among Pieve di Cadores best-known works, inspired by the Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius and copied by artists such as Bernardino Campi and Giovan Paolo Lomazzo. The paintings were originally to have been housed in a room devoted to them to plans by Giulio Romano inside the Palazzo Ducale di Mantova. Between 1627 and 1628 the paintings were sold to Charles I of England by Vincenzo II Gonzaga, and when Charless collection was dissolved during the English Commonwealth the Eleven Caesars passed into the collection of the king of Spain. They were lost in a fire at Alcazar near Madrid. |
| lexicalization | eng: Eleven Caesars |
| instance of | c/Titian paintings |
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| has gloss | ita: Le immagini a mezzobusto degli Undici Cesari erano state dipinte da Tiziano Vecellio per Federico II Gonzaga e furono collocate in unapposita sala progettata da Giulio Romano allinterno del Palazzo Ducale di Mantova. I busti dei Cesari, ispirati alle Vite di Svetonio (che però trattavano le biografie di dodici imperatori) furono una delle operi più celebri del maestro di Pieve di Cadore e furono copiate anche da artisti famosi come Bernardino Campi e Giovan Paolo Lomazzo. Tra il 1627 e il 1628 i dipinti furono venduti da Vincenzo II Gonzaga a Carlo I dInghilterra per poi passare nelle collezioni dei Re di Spagna, dove andarono perduti in un incendio allAlcazar presso Madrid. |
| lexicalization | ita: Undici Cesari |
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