Raimondi Chapel

{{Short description|Chapel designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini}}

{{Infobox artwork

| title = Raimondi Chapel

| image_file = Cappella Raimondi - San Pietro in Montorio.jpg

| image_upright = 1

| artist = Gian Lorenzo Bernini

| catalogue = 46

| year = {{start date|1638}}-1648

| city = Rome

| museum = San Pietro in Montorio

| preceded_by = Memorial to Maria Raggi

| followed_by = Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

}}

Image:Francesco Baratta.jpg

The Raimondi Chapel is a chapel within the church of San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, Italy. The chapel houses the tombs of two members of the Raimondi family, Francesco and Raimondo. Both the architectural and sculptural elements of the chapel were designed by the artist Gianlorenzo Bernini - it was one of Bernini's first works where the relationship between the sculpture and the architecture was considered as a whole. Elements of the sculptures were executed by other artists in Bernini's circle; Andrea Bolgi did the busts of the two Raimondi brothers and the accompanying putti. Niccolò Sale undertook the reliefs on the tombs, while Francesco Baratta did the larger relief in the central altar. Work on the chapel took place between 1638 and 1648. {{sfn|Wittkower|1997|pp=263-265}}

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References

  • {{cite book|last=Wittkower |first=Rudolf |title=Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque |publisher=Phaidon Press |location=London |year=1997 |edition=4th |isbn=9780714837154}}

Further reading

  • {{cite book|last=Baldinucci |first=Filippo |title=The Life of Bernini |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |location=University Park |year=2006 |orig-year=1682 |isbn=9780271730769}}
  • {{cite book|last=Bernini |first=Domenico |title=The Life of Giano Lorenzo Bernini |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |location=University Park |year=2011 |orig-year=1713 |isbn=9780271037486}}
  • {{cite book|last=Mormando |first=Franco |title=Bernini: His Life and His Rome |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |year=2011 |isbn=9780226538525}}
  • {{cite book|last=Lavin |first=Irving |title=Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |year=1980 |isbn=978-0195201840}}