Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Tomb of Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini
Alternate Title:
Monumento funebre di Cinzio Aldobrandini
Image View:
Detail of Death with wings and a scythe, over a sarcophagus; Aldobrandini shield above
Creator:
Carlo Francesco Bizzacheri (Italian designer, 1655-1721)
Location:
repository: San Pietro in Vincoli (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
4/a Piazza San Pietro in Vincoli
GPS:
41.893872 12.493069
Date:
ca. 1700-1710 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Baroque
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Work Type 2:
tomb
Work Type 3:
monument
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
white and colored marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Subjects:
allegory; death or burial; funerary art; rulers and leaders; cardinals (prelates); skeleton; scythe; personification of death; memento mori; vanitas
Description:
The cardinal died in 1610; he was a member of the powerful Aldobrandini and a nephew of Ippolito Aldobrandini (later Pope Clement VIII). He was the titular cardinal of San Pietro in Vincoli. Bizzacheri was trained as an architect, but supplied designs for architectonic and sculptural ornament. Skulls and skeletons were popular on Baroque tombs as Vanitas symbols, or Memento mori, to remind the viewer of the transitoriness of human existence. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-BIZZACH-TCPA-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Tomb of Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini