Aurora Sanseverino (28 April 1669 – 2 July 1726) was an Italian noblewoman, salon-holder, patron and poet. One of the most celebrated women in the highest rank of the Neapolitan aristocracy,[1] she was known for her great cultural activity as a patron and mecenat of art and for her famous cultural salon in Naples, and correspondent of several contemporary culture personalities that made her a central figure in baroque Italy.[2]
Remembered as a "very beautiful, kind and lively lady",[3] she also contributed much to giving women a dignified place in the cultural circles of Neapolitan society of the time.[3]
^Willette, p.77
^Landgraf, Vickers, p.566
^ abGérard Labrot, Carol Togneri Dowd, Anna Cera Sones, Collections of paintings in Naples: 1600-1780, K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, 1992, p. 409
AuroraSanseverino (28 April 1669 – 2 July 1726) was an Italian noblewoman, salon-holder, patron and poet. One of the most celebrated women in the highest...
in pastoral style for musical gatherings in the palaces of duchess AuroraSanseverino (whom Mainwaring called "Donna Laura") one of the most influential...
De Sono - Albisani, 2016. Ausilia Magaudda - Danilo Costantini, AuroraSanseverino (1669-1726) e la sua attività di committente musicale nel Regno di...
era, commonly defined as Baroque. Patrons and salon-holders such as AuroraSanseverino, Isabella Pignone del Carretto and Ippolita Cantelmo Stuart had a...
(Naples, 1746) Missa defunctorum (Naples, 1721) Pietro ANDRISANI, "AuroraSanseverino mecenate: suo contributo allo sviluppo dell’Opera in Scuola Napoletana"...
elsewhere. Born in Teggiano in 1425 as Giulio Sanseverino, the natural son of a nobleman of the Sanseverino family, in Rome Pomponio devoted his energies...