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Saint Catherine of Siena's Room

Romano, Antoniazzo
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Alternative Title
Santa Maria sopra Minerva: Saint Catherine of Siena's Room
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/118511
Date
1637
Description
Altarpiece, "Crucifixion", detail; Saint Catherine of Siena is buried here (except her head, which is in the church of San Domenico in Siena). Beyond the sacristy, the room where she died in 1380 was reconstructed here by Antonio Cardinal Barberini in 1637. This room is the first transplanted interior, and the progenitor of familiar 19th and 20th century museum "period rooms." The frescoes by Antoniazzo Romano that decorated the original walls, however, are now lost. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 2/15/2008)
Type of Work
sepulchral chapel
Subject
architectural exteriors, death or burial, saints, Renaissance
Rights
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only
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