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Design for a Papal Tomb Monument
Artist: Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598 - 1680)
Location: National Gallery of Scotland
Date: 1654 - 1668
Materials: pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk
Dimensions: 47 x 33 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £10,000 (Total: £23,000)
Vendor: Colnaghi
Review number: 4513 (1997)
Provenance:
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 3/7/1996, lot. 137.
Description:
Possibly for a monument to Pope Innocent X Pamphili (Colnaghi's catalogue). There are no allegorical figures as in Bernini's other monuments and no tomb, instead the frail Pope leans with hand raised in benediction.
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