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Paul V

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noun

  1. Camillo Borghese, 1552–1621, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1605–21.


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The online Catholic magazine Crux noted that five popes — Pius V, Sixtus V, Clement XIII, Paul V and Clement IX — are interred in that basilica.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

A portraitist at the Vatican, and Pope Paul V was among her sitters.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2019

The Bernini will be displayed at the Getty's Italian Baroque gallery where there is already a portrait by the Italian artist Guercino of Pope Gregory XV, the pope who succeeded Paul V in 1621.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2015

The Bernini bust of Pope Paul V was completed in 1621 as a commission from Cardinal Scipione Borghese, a nephew of the papal leader who would become one of the artist's most important patrons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2015

But the death of Paul V at first seemed like good news for science.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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