Three chapels by Gian Lorenzo Bernini Cappella Paluzzi Albertoni
The viewer is guided towards the end of the chapel by a sort of frame. There is no traditional altar, but a composition made by different materials and by different artists. A colored marble is shaped in the form of a drapery on which lies a statue of Beata Ludovica Albertoni (or perhaps St Anne) by Bernini. Above the statue a fine painting by Giovanni Battista Gaulli il Baciccio on a subject drawn by Bernini. Slightly above the statue, in a very unusual position, two series of stucco angels converge towards it. Finally all the wall is covered by a gilted decoration. Also in this chapel Bernini devised a hidden window to direct light on the face of Beata Ludovica Albertoni. Other chapels by Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Cappella Raimondi in S. Pietro in Montorio Cappella Cornaro in S. Maria della Vittoria Other pages dealing with Baroque sculpture: Monuments showing the dead in a medallion Representation of Death in Baroque sculptures Statues in the act of praying Three busts by Alessandro Algardi See also my List of Baroque Architects and my Directory of Baroque Sculpture. Go and see another work by Gian Lorenzo Bernini or go to my Home
Page on Baroque Rome or to my Home Page on Rome
in the footsteps of an XVIIIth century traveller.
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