Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Santa Maria della Pace: Cesi Chapel
Alternate Title:
Cesi Chapel
Image View:
View into the chapel with monument to Angelo Cesi on left wall
Creator:
Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (Italian architect, 1484-1546); attributed to Rosso Fiorentino (Italian painter, 1494-1540); Simone Mosca (Italian sculptor, 1492-1553); Vincenzo di Raffaello de' Rossi (Italian sculptor, 1525-1587)
Location:
site: Santa Maria della Pace (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Via Arco della Pace 5
GPS:
41.89987 12.47164
Date:
1525-1560 (inclusive)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
chapel (room or structure)
Work Type 2:
fresco (painting)
Work Type 3:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
marble; fresco; stuccowork
Technique:
carving (processes); fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
death or burial; funerary art; Old Testament and Apocrypha; cardinals (prelates); Saint Anne
Description:
The second chapel on the right of the nave, the Cesi Chapel, was designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger in 1525 for papal consistorial lawyer Angelo Cesi and dedicated to St Anne. It has an altarpiece of The Holy Family with St. Anne by Carlo Cesio. The vault has intricate stucco decoration, containing three fresco panels by Sermoneta. The statues and the reliefs on the two matching Cesi family memorials are by Vincenzo de Rossi (1560). De Rossi was also responsible for the two statues of SS Peter and Paul flanking the entrance. The enormous and intricate bas-relief around the chapel arch is by Simone Mosca. Flanking the window above the chapel are two frescoes by Filippo Lauri, featuring The Creation of Eve and The Fall. (These have also been attributed to Rosso Fiorentino.) (Source: Churches of Rome Wiki [website]; http://romanchurches .wikia.com/)
Image Description:
Sphinxes by Mosca (1525); reclining figure of Cesi by Vincenzo de Rossi (1560).
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
6A2-I-R-SMP-CC-A36
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Santa Maria della Pace: Cesi Chapel