Cupola of Santa Maria in Valicella
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Title
Cupola of Santa Maria in Valicella
Description
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" and "The Glorification of the Instruments of the Passion".
Creator
Pietro da Cortona
Source
Ronen, Avraham. "Divine Wrath and Intercession in Pietro Da Cortona's Frescoes in the Chiesa Nuova." Römisches Jahrbuch Der Bibliotheca Hertziana 25, (1989): 179. https://login.proxy.lib.duke.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/divine-wrath-intercession-pietro-da-cortonas/docview/1302118352/se-2?accountid=10598.
“A Drawing by Cortona for the Chiesa Nuova, Rome.” The Burlington Magazine 122, no. 926 (1980): 341–42. http://www.jstor.org/stable/879972.
“A Drawing by Cortona for the Chiesa Nuova, Rome.” The Burlington Magazine 122, no. 926 (1980): 341–42. http://www.jstor.org/stable/879972.
Publisher
Cardinal Francesco Barberini
Pietro da Cortona. Trinity in Glory. Images, n.d. https://jstor.org/stable/community.14479146.
Pietro da Cortona. Trinity in Glory. Images, n.d. https://jstor.org/stable/community.14479146.
Date
1647-1651
Contributor
Kyle Campbell
Rights
(c) 2006, SCALA, Florence/ART RESOURCE, N.Y.
Type
fresco
Coverage
Santa Maria in Valicella, Rome, Italy
Files
Citation
Pietro da Cortona, “Cupola of Santa Maria in Valicella,” ARTHIST 256 - Italian Baroque Art - Fall 2021, accessed October 22, 2026, https://www.baroque.dahvc.org/fall-2021/items/show/268.