Vincenzo Borghini

Vincenzo Borghini (29 October 1515 – 15 August 1580) was an Italian monk, artist, philologist, and art collector of Florence, Italy.

Anonymous portrait of Vincenzo Borghini, National Central Library of Florence

Borghini was a learned Benedictine cleric. He was the luogotenente of the Accademia del Disegno (from 1563).[1]

After 1552, Borghini, a Benedictine monk served as Spedalingo or Prior of the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence.[2]

He was an artistic advisor to the Medici, and was engaged with Giorgio Vasari in designing and selecting the decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I Medici in the Palazzo Vecchio of Florence.

References
  1. Vincenzo Borghini: “MDLX a 28 d’ottobre, nel qual dì, Sua Eccellenza hebbe il tosone, fece l’entrata in Siena come appresso” from Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Ms. II. X. 100 (ca. 1560) edited by Charles Davis.
  2. Vincenzo Borghini's Collection of Paintings, article by Rick Scorza, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 2003 The Warburg Institute LXVI 2003.
  • Folena, Gianfranco (1970). "BORGHINI, Vincenzio Maria". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 12: Bonfadini–Borrello (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
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