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The Visionary Ecstasy of Death: Bernini’s Sculpture of …
Oct 30, 2020 · Discover the extraordinary last masterpiece of Baroque genius Gianlorenzo Bernini, a startling portrait of the visionary mystic Ludovica Albertoni captured at the moment of her death.
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa - Wikipedia
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• Death of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (1671–1674)—San Francesco a Ripa, Rome.
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Ludovica Albertoni - Wikipedia
- Ludovica Albertoni was born in 1473 in Rometo the prominent nobles Stefano Albertoni and Lucretia Tebaldi. Her father died around 1475 and she was entrusted to the care of her paternal aunts who saw to it that she had a Christian education. Her parents had arranged her betrothal and in obedience she married the nobleman Giacomo della Cetera in 1494...
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Blessed Ludovica Albertoni - Musée Magnin
Blessed Ludovica Albertoni. The statue of the woman who devoted her life to helping the poor in the Roman working class area of Trastevere, was executed by Bernini in 1674 for the altar …
Bernini’s Blessed Ludovica Albertoni: Drapery and the Permeability …
Gianlorenzo Bernini’s Blessed Ludovica Albertoni has remained a footnote at the end of the artist’s long life, with scholarly treatment conveying a deep-seated discomfort with the …
The meaning of Blessed Ludovica Albertoni by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Feb 18, 2024 · Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, created by the renowned sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is a masterpiece that captures the essence of spirituality, devotion, and …
The Blessed Ludovica Albertoni | Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
This terracotta is a sketch-model for a marble sculpture of the Franciscan nun Ludovica Albertoni in the Altieri chapel in the church of San Francesco a Ripa in Rome. The decoration of the chapel was commissioned from Lorenzo Bernini …
Ludovica Albertoni | work by Bernini | Britannica
…the figure of the expiring Ludovica Albertoni in the Altieri Chapel, San Francesco a Ripa, Rome (c. 1674). The former is generally considered the masterpiece of Baroque religious sculpture …
Bernini and the Idealization of Death: The “Blessed …
Tracing the history of the cult of Ludovica, the Altieri Chapel, and the statue, Shelley Perlove illuminates Bernini's contribution, both artistically and iconographically, to the chapel and proposes an interpretation of the precise …
