COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Santa Maria sopra Minerva: Carafa Chapel
Alternate Title:
Carafa Chapel
Image View:
Close-up of a cherubim from the frieze of the entablature
Creator:
Filippino Lippi (Italian painter, ca.1457-1504)
Location:
site: Santa Maria sopra Minerva (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Date:
1488-1493 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
chapel (room or structure)
Classification:
painting
Material:
fresco
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Relation Work:
part of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Subjects:
allegorical; New Testament; Old Testament and Apocrypha; saints; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Description:
The chapel was dedicated to the Virgin of the Annunciation and to St Thomas Aquinas. On the vault Filippino painted four sibyls--the Cumaean, the Delphic, the Tiburtine and the Hellespontine--each of whom appears with angels, texts, scrolls and plaques. On the altar wall he painted the Assumption of the Virgin, surrounding a frescoed altarpiece framed by marble, depicting the Annunciation with St Thomas Aquinas Presenting Cardinal Carafa to the Virgin. In the lunette of the west wall he painted a Miracle of St Thomas and, beneath this, the Triumph of St Thomas. No frescoes remain on the east wall; they were destroyed when a marble wall tomb was made for the Cardinal's nephew, Pope Paul IV, in the later 16th century. Vasari described allegories of Virtues conquering Vices, and these may be the subjects of the lost frescoes. On the stuccoed barrel vault of an oblong chamber behind the east wall are Stories of Virginia and allegorical figures designed by Filippino and painted by Raffaellino del Garbo. (Source: G
Collection:
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier:
6A1-LF-CC-C6
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Santa Maria sopra Minerva: Carafa Chapel
