Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Cornaro Chapel
Alternate Title:
Santa Maria della Vittoria; Cornaro Chapel
Image View:
Right (north) gallery, Cornaro family members
Creator:
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian architect, 1598-1680); Guido Ubaldo Abbatini (Italian painter, ca. 1600-1656)
Location:
site: Santa Maria della Vittoria (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Via 20 Settembre, 17
GPS:
41.904722 12.494167
Date:
1647-1652 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Baroque
Work Type 1:
sepulchral chapel
Work Type 2:
cast (sculpture)
Classification:
Architecture and City Planning
Material:
marble; stained glass; fresco
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Relation Work:
partOf Santa Maria della Vittoria
Subjects:
death or burial; portrait; saints; Angels; Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582; Cornaro family; trompe l'oeill; false perspective
Description:
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/)
Image Description:
The "spectators" are members of the Cornaro family, all deceased except for the Cardinal himself who appears second from right; they are shown disputing some theological point.
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
1A1-BG-CC-J29
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Cornaro Chapel