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Alexander VII
noun
Fabio Chigi, 1599–1667, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1655–67.
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Pier Francesco Mola’s refined 1659 portrait sketch of Pope Alexander VII is all crisp detail from the waist up and all waxy meltdown below.
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Pietro da Cortona added the peculiar semicircular portico under Alexander VII.
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The Colonnades have 284 columns, are sixty-one feet wide, and sixty-four high; they enclose an area of 777 English feet; they were built by Bernini for Alexander VII., 1657-67.
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November 18th, 1626; the colonnade added by Alexander VII.,
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Its decorations were chiefly executed by Bernini for Alexander VII.
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