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Cornaro Chapel

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
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Alternative Titles
Santa Maria della Vittoria; Cornaro Chapel
Cappella Cornaro
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/119151
Date
1647-1652
Description
View looking up into the dome and west transept frescoed dome and vault. (Ceiling fresco by Bonaventura Lamberti); The unity of sculpture, painting and architecture makes the chapel one of Bernini's greatest achievements. He was commissioned by the Venetian Cardinal Federigo Cornaro (1579-1653) to decorate a small chapel forming the left transept of the early 17th-century church. The patron wanted to construct a mortuary chapel for himself, commemorate seven other distinguished members of his family and, especially, honour St. Teresa of Avila, the 16th-century Spanish mystic and Carmelite reformer canonized in 1622. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 10/17/2007)
Type of Work
sepulchral chapel; sculpture (visual work)
Subject
death or burial, saints, Angels, Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582, Baroque
Rights
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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