Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Tomb of Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Tomb of Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini
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Alternate Title:
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Monumento funebre di Cinzio Aldobrandini
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Image View:
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Detail of allegorical figure of Death
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Creator:
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Carlo Francesco Bizzacheri (Italian designer, 1655-1721)
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Location:
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repository: San Pietro in Vincoli (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Location Note:
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4/a Piazza San Pietro in Vincoli
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GPS:
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+41.893872+12.493069
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Date:
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ca. 1700-1710 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Baroque
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Work Type 2:
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tomb
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Work Type 3:
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monument
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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white and colored marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Subjects:
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allegory; death or burial; funerary art; rulers and leaders; cardinals (prelates); skeleton; scythe; personification of death; memento mori; vanitas
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Description:
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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.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-BIZZACH-TCPA-A05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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