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Design for a Papal Tomb Monument
Gianlorenzo Bernini
- Art Funded
- 1997
- Dimensions
- 47 x 33 cm
- Vendor
- Colnaghi
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.
Provenance
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 3/7/1996, lot. 137.