Patron of The Arts
Bentivoglio took Girolamo Frescobaldi with him to Brussels as his household composer.
On his return to Rome in 1621 Bentivoglio bought Cardinal Scipione Borghese's new palazzo on the Quirinale. Filippo Baldinucci, the biographer of Claude Lorrain, asserts that Cardinal Bentivoglio launched the artist's career by purchasing two landscapes by him, which brought the artist to the attention of Urban VIII.
He commissioned his portrait from Anthony van Dyck (illustration). His portrait bust was sculpted by François Duquesnoy "Il Fiammingo", a Franco-Flemish sculptor working in Rome
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