Count Carlo Archinto (30 July 1669 – 17 December 1732) was an Italian aristocrat and patron of the arts.

Biography

Carlo Archinto was born into the aristocratic Archinto family and was educated initially under the

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at the

Brera Academy The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan's main public mu ...

of Milan. He then studied with the Jesuits at the

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. He travelled as a young man through France, Germany, Holland, and his native Italy and returned in Milan in 1700. He formed a very choice library in his palace, which he enriched with a rare collection of mathematical instruments. In 1702, he founded a scholarly academy, which met at his palace. He collaborated with

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to publish the epic history by Muratori, titled ''

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''. He was rewarded with appointments by the Hapsburg rulers. The Emperor

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made Archinto his chamberlain, and

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created him a knight of the Golden Fleece, and

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of Spain. Archinto commissioned frescoes by the Venetian

Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( , ; 5 March 1696 – 27 March 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an importa ...

to decorate his family's

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.Giambattista Tiepolo: Fifteen Oil Sketches
by Jon L. Seydl, page 36. Frescoes destroyed by bombing in World War II. He died on the 17 December, 1732.

Works

Carlo Archinto wrote several works both in Latin and Italian; one, the annotations on the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Books of the Histories of

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, is published in fourth volume of the ''Rerum italicarum scriptores'', and some tables of the sciences were published anonymously at Venice after the anthor's death, under the title ''Tabulæ precipua Scientiarum et Artium Capita digesta per Ordinem repræsentantes''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Archinto, Carlo 1669 births 1732 deaths 18th-century Italian writers 18th-century Italian male writers Italian art patrons People from Milan 18th-century nobility from the Holy Roman Empire