Monument to cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini (1705) by Carlo Bizzacheri at Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli (St. Peter in Chains) in Rome, Italy. November 29, 2024
The tomb of the 16th-century cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini designed by architect Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri was erected in 1705–07 by prince Giovanni Battista Pamphili Aldobrandini and it is located just a few metres from the macabre tomb of Vechiarelli in the nave of San Pietro in Vincoli.
The sculptures of putti and a winged skeleton created by Pierre Le Gros the Younger. Here Death really takes centre stage - a winged, grimacing skeleton holding an enormous scythe and hourglass, he looms menacingly over Aldobrandini’s rather modest polychrome sepulchre. Look out for shrouded Death’s brilliantly depicted spinal column, peeking out from behind his ribcage. Unusually, the cardinal himself is nowhere to be seen: instead, the family crest of the Aldobrandini lets us know who is buried within.
St. Peter's Basilica, founded in 442, is also known as the Eudossian Basilica after the name of its founder, Licinia Eudossia (422-493). The church has undergone numerous restorations, the most important of which were carried out by Hadrian I in 780, by Sixtus IV in 1471 and by Julius II in 1503.
Monument to cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini (1705) by Carlo Bizzacheri at Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli (St. Peter in Chains) in Rome, Italy. November 29, 2024
The tomb of the 16th-century cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini designed by architect Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri was erected in 1705–07 by prince Giovanni Battista Pamphili Aldobrandini and it is located just a few metres from the macabre tomb of Vechiarelli in the nave of San Pietro in Vincoli.
The sculptures of putti and a winged skeleton created by Pierre Le Gros the Younger. Here Death really takes centre stage - a winged, grimacing skeleton holding an enormous scythe and hourglass, he looms menacingly over Aldobrandini’s rather modest polychrome sepulchre. Look out for shrouded Death’s brilliantly depicted spinal column, peeking out from behind his ribcage. Unusually, the cardinal himself is nowhere to be seen: instead, the family crest of the Aldobrandini lets us know who is buried within.
St. Peter's Basilica, founded in 442, is also known as the Eudossian Basilica after the name of its founder, Licinia Eudossia (422-493). The church has undergone numerous restorations, the most important of which were carried out by Hadrian I in 780, by Sixtus IV in 1471 and by Julius II in 1503.