Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Cornaro Chapel
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Cornaro Chapel
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Alternate Title:
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Santa Maria della Vittoria; Cornaro Chapel
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Image View:
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Overall view of Left (south) gallery, located above a doorway to the nave
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Creator:
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian architect, 1598-1680); Guido Ubaldo Abbatini (Italian painter, ca. 1600-1656)
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Location:
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site: Santa Maria della Vittoria (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Via 20 Settembre, 17
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GPS:
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+41.904722+12.494167
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Date:
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1647-1652 (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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sepulchral chapel
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Work Type 2:
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cast (sculpture)
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Classification:
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Architecture and City Planning
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Material:
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marble; stained glass; fresco
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Technique:
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carving (processes); construction (assembling)
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Relation Work:
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partOf Santa Maria della Vittoria
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Subjects:
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death or burial; portrait; saints; Angels; Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582; Cornaro family; trompe l'oeill; false perspective
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Description:
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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, honor St. Teresa of Avila, the 16th-century Spanish mystic and Carmelite reformer canonized in 1622. Guido Ubaldo Abbatini painted the vision of clouds and angels in the vault above Bernini’s marble group of Saint Teresa in Ecstasy. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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1A1-BG-CC-J25
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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