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Description: | Luigi Vanvitelli (1700-1773), an architect and painter, worked for the papal court in Rome. This piece is a bozzetto, an oil sketch made to try out or record a composition. It shows an altarpiece made for Cardinal Acquaviva's chapel in the church of Santa Cecilia in the Trastevere district of Rome. The fifth-century Saint Cecilia is shown with her intended, Valerianus. Cecilia defied her parents and refused to marry, at which point Valerianus converted to Christianity. An angel crowned them both with roses and lilies, the scene shown here. Cecilia was the patron-saint of music, hence the cello. | Subjects: | figure; religion (St Cecilia St Valerianus) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Vanvitelli, Luigi (Italian architect, 1700-1773) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8853... | Go to resource |
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