Death of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian sculptor, 1598-1680)
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La Beata Ludovica Albertoni
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/119104
Date
1671-1674
Description
General view of the entire Altieri Chapel, with the sculptural altar below. Altarpiece, Virgin and Child with St. Anne (ca. 1675) by Gaulli; In 1674 Bernini completed the marble altarpiece, the Death of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, for the Altieri Chapel in San Francesco a Ripa, Rome, which takes up some of the theatrical devices employed in the Cornaro Chapel. Also for this chapel, Giovanni Battista Gaulli executed a new altarpiece, Virgin and Child with St Anne (ca. 1675; in situ.) Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 12/24/2007)
Type of Work
sculpture (visual work)
Subject
death or burial, saints, Franciscans, Baroque
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