Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Burial of Saint Petronilla

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title: 
Burial of Saint Petronilla
Alternate Title: 
Burial and Reception into Heaven of St. Petronilla
Image View: 
Detail, top left, Christ receiving the saint into heaven
Creator: 
Guercino (Italian painter, 1591-1666)
Location: 
repository: Musei Capitolini (Rome, Lazio, Italy) Inv. PC 140
Location Note: 
Piazza del Campidoglio, 1; Palazzo dei Conservatori, Hall of St. Petronilla
GPS: 
+41.893056+12.4825
Date: 
1621-1623 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Baroque
Work Type 1: 
altarpiece
Work Type 2: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
painting
Material: 
oil paint on canvas
Technique: 
oil painting (technique)
Measurements: 
720 cm (height) x 423 cm (width)
Description: 
Commissioned for an altar in Saint Peter's Basilica; transferred to Palazzo del Quirinale, requisitioned by Napoleon's troops and taken to Paris, Louvre; brought back to Italy by Antonio Canova and placed in the Capitoline Museums in 1818. Guercino was summoned to Rome when his patron Cardinal Alessandro Ludovisi, was elected pope as Gregory XV; however plans were cut short when Gregory died after two years. Nevertheless, Guercino did complete one prominent papal commission, the Burial and Reception into Heaven of St Petronilla, painted for one of the altars in St Peter’s and completed shortly before the artist’s departure from the Holy City in 1623. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection: 
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier: 
7A1-C-CM-TBSP-A02
Rights: 
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