Collection of 9 Worthies and other groups of famous men/women

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Large collections

Boccaccio: 106 women - De Mulieribus Claris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Mulieribus_Claris

Boccaccio: 56 men - De casibus virorum illustrium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_casibu ... illustrium

Plutarch: 46/48 biographies arranged in 23/24 pairs - Parallel Lives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ ... ntury%20AD.

22 Persons

Coluccio Salutati's 22 epigrams for frescoes of Florentine heroes in the Palazzo Vecchio1
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Sola Busca Tarocchi - 22 trumps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_Busca_tarot
https://web.archive.org/web/20180112133 ... usca_Tarot
0 – Mato
I – Panfilio
II – Postumio
III – Lenpio
IV – Mario
V – Catulo
VI – Sesto
VII – Deo Tauro
VIII – Nerone
IX – Falco
X – Venturio
XI – Tulio
XII – Carbone
XIII – Catone
XIIII – Bocho
XV – Metelo
XVI – Olivo
XVII – Ipeo
XVIII – Lentulo
XIX – Sabino
XX – Nenbroto
XXI – Nabuchodenasor

18 Persons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castello_della_Manta

Francesco Filelfo's 18 epigrams for the paintings of famous women and men in the Arengo palace in Milan
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9 Heroes

not sorted for the moment

Collection Trinci family, Foligno
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Re: Collection of 9 Worthies and other groups of famous men/women

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Ross, thanks for the link ...
Ross Caldwell wrote: 07 Jul 2023, 08:11 There is a descriptive list of 66 groups of famous men and women in Italy in the Oxford university doctoral thesis of Tanya Bastianich, 2000, pp. 230-257; "Appendix I: Uomini Illustri Cycles on the Italian Peninsula."
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7dc68 ... ork=Thesis
An Illustrious Man and his Uomini Illustri: Francesco di Marco Datini and the decoration of his palace in Prato.
I've worked a little bit on it, mainly just copying the headlines and only adding a few remarks. Till now I got 1-26, from totally 1-66.
Naples
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1. Castelnuovo, Robert d'Anjou, Giotto di Bondone c. 1332 (lost)

Florence
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2. Santa Maria del Fiore (partially executed) c. 1396
3. Palazzo Vecchio, Bicci di Lorenzo, after 1385 - before 1406 (destroyed 1470's)
4. Palazzo Vecchio, Sala del Gigli Ghirlandaio (Botticelli, Perugino, Filippino Lippi, Piero Pollaiuolo) 1482 Epigrams: Bartolomeo Scala & Cristoforo Landino
5. Palazzo Vecchio - intarsia doors, Giuliano da Maiano, Francesco di Giovanni (Francione) 1480 (April 20 - August)
6. Guild Hall of Judges and Notaries, Jacopo di Cione 1366-68, Andrea del Castagno 1447 - Leonardo Bruni, possibly 3 virtues,
Axnbrogio di Baldese Nov. 26, 1406 - Salutati & Claudius Maestro Stefano 1475 Piero del Pollaiuolo Oct. 1459 - Poggio Bracciolini &
Gianozzo Manetti Rhetoric (?), Dialectic (?), and Grammar (?)
7. Villa Carducci - Legnaia, Pandolfo Pandolfini, Andrea del Castagno, Advisor: Alaxnazino Rinuccini 1449-1451 (extant - partially removed to Uffizi)
8. Vecchia Casa Medici (lost), Lorenzo di Bicci
9. Sala del Tribunale - Palazzo dell'Arte della Laxia, 1342-1378 circa. (Maso?) (Some Remains)

Rome
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10. Montegiordano, Cardinal Orsini, Palazzo Taverna (presently),
Hall of Famous Men, Giottino/Masolino c. 1369 (destroyed December 1485)
11. Vatican Stanze, Melozzo and Piero della Francesca, Destroyed by Raphael's frescoes in the Stanze
12. Palazzina della Rovere ai S.S. Apostoli (today Colonna)
Bernardino Pinturicchio, Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, finished before 1494 (partially visible, possibly covered)

Tagliacozzo (Bracciano)
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13. Palazzo Ducale di Tagliacozzo, Roberto and Napoleone Orsini
between 1464-1497
my note: 13 figures out of 22 remain.
Figures: South wall: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Ovid, Varro. West wall: Scipio Africanus, Flaminius, Penthesilea, Troilus, Salomon, Alexander the Great, Prophetas (7 figures missing). North wall: figure with book, Queen Candax (?), Queen Esther (?), Brutus.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_D ... gliacozzo)

https://www.google.com/search?client=op ... DRt7zNGAXM

For the moment I don't know, what "South wall", "West wall" and "North wall" shall be. And how the "number 22" plays a role.
Bracciano
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14. Palazzo Orsini between 1470 and 1497
15. Palazzo Orsini, Gentil Virginio Orsini, early 16th c.

Ghedi
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16. Palazzo Orsini, Niccolò Orsini di Pitigliano, early 16th c.

Milan
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17. Castello Azzo Visconti, c. 1339. lost - possibly as early as the mid 1350's.
18. Banco Mediceo, Vincenzo Foppa
19. Palazzo Panigarola (Today - Prinetti), Bramante, Late 1400's


Vigevano
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20. Leonardo da Vinci

Pavia
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21. Castello die Pavia, c1367

Verona
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22. Scala Palace, Altichiero and Avanzo, Patron: Consinorio della Scala (d. 1375) (?) (Schlosser), c. 1369 (partially lost)
My comment: the description looks like a 5x12:
Figures: Spandrels: ((Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian.) These figures in the parentheses no longer exist, but are a plausible reconstruction by Richards. Altichiero and Humanist
Patronage...(1989).
Soffits:
0. (Nerva), (Trajan), (Antoninus Pius), (Marcus Aurelius).
1. (Lucius Verus), (Commodus), (Pertinax), (Julian).
2. Hadrian, Geta, (Severus), Sabtna.
3. Caracalla, (Macrinus), (Diadumenus), (Elagabalus).
4. Faustina, Severus Alexander, Maximinus, Maxinius.
5. Gordian I, (Gordian II), Pupienus, Balbinus,
6.(Gordian III), Philip I, (Philip II), (Decius Mus).
7.(T. Callus), (Volusianus), (Valerianus I), (Valerianus II).
8.(Gallienus), (Cl. Gothicus), (Ouintilius), Aurelian.
9.(Tacitus), (Rorianus), (Probus), Cams.
lO.(Carinus), (Numerianus), (Diocletian), (Maximian).
ll.(Constantius), (Helen), (Galerius), (Fabricius Licinius).

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cansignorio_della_Scala ... the Patron
https://www.google.com/search?client=op ... =928&dpr=1 .... images for "Verona Scala Palace Altichiero Avanzo"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altichiero ... Altechiero, painter
23. Loggia del Consigilio

Padua
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24. Sala Illustrium Virorum, Francesco Petrarca, Lombardo della Seta, Francesco da Carrara, Guariento (d. 1370), Altichiero (d. circa 1385), Jacopo Avanzo of Padua (flourished 2nd 1/2 of 14th c.), Ottaviano Prandino da Brescia (flourished 1370-1420) c. 1367- 1379 (mostly lost)
Padua
25.[/b] [/color] Casa Vitaliani, Sala del Giganti, Paolo Uccello after 1443 (lost)
26. Sala del Giganti (old Sala Virorum Illustrium), Padua - now part of Padua University, Domenico Campagnola - artist Stefano dall'Arzere - artist, Giovanni Cavazza - eulogia, Francesco de Puciviglianis - inscriber c. 1539-40
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