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Sculptor Giovacchino Fortini carved Bust of a Nobleman in Armour in 1700. The bust is done in white marble, and currently belongs to a private collection [1].

Fortini, a Florentine sculptor, was renowned for his busts that marked a design shift…

Ceiling fresco by Mariano Rossi in the Galleria Borghese

Ceiling fresco by Pellegrino Tibaldi in Palazzo Poggi

See collection entries for Bernini's David, Michelangelo's David, and Rubens' David and Goliath for information on each image.

The construction of the Cornaro Chapel took place from 1647 to 1652 at the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome. The project was comissioned by Frederigo Cornaro, the Cardinal of Venice to honor both himself, family members, and a saint. The chapel was…

Bound in a lovely pink, gilt-edged and stamped glazed paper binding, schoolgirl Emma Lascal’s beautifully observed and sensitively drawn cosmography report summarizes the astronomical knowledge of her day. Nineteenth-century advances in the telescope…

Commissioned in 1646, this work was a tremendous undertaking to fresco the cupola of the Chiesa Nuova for the Oratorians. Cortona also painted a second ceiling fresco in the same church. This fresco has historically been called "The Trinity in Glory"…

Damned Soul, a marble bust created by Bernini in 1619, depicts a male face with a twisted, painful expression [1]. The eyebrows are deeply arched, the mouth is open revealing a full set of teeth, and the head faces the left as if looking away at…

Bernini’s sculpture, David, was commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese for the Borghese Gallery. The sculpture was done in marble over the course of seven months spanning 1623 to 1624 [1].

In the life size sculpture, David is rotating his body…