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20-501: 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

40-550: A fresco by Niccolò Circignani (1554), some Renaissance frescoes from the school of Pinturicchio, and an allegorical sibyl and virtue attributed to Baldassare Peruzzi . The fourth chapel has a ceiling fresco by Giorgio Vasari . The ceiling of the fifth chapel contains another fresco, the Conversion of St. Paul , by Vasari. The altarpiece is attributed to Giulio Mazzoni , while the funerary monument of Pope Julius III and Roberto Nobili are by Bartolomeo Ammannati . Also buried in

60-596: A new marble plaque with the same inscription in approximately the original place. The so-called Tempietto ( lit.   ' small temple ' ) is a small commemorative tomb ( martyrium ) designed by Donato Bramante , possibly built as early as 1502 in the courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio. Commissioned by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, the Tempietto is considered a masterpiece of High Renaissance Italian architecture. Dirck van Baburen Dirck Jaspersz. van Baburen ( c.  1595 – 21 February 1624)

80-515: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . San Pietro in Montorio The Church of San Pietro in Montorio was built on the site of an earlier 9th-century church dedicated to Saint Peter on Rome's Janiculum hill. It serves as a shrine, marking the supposed site of St. Peter's crucifixion . In the 15th century, the ruins were given to the Amadist friars , a reform branch of

100-782: The Entombment for the Pietà Chapel, which is indebted to Caravaggio's example . Baburen worked with another Dutch artist, David de Haen in this chapel. The two other paintings, The Mocking of Christ and The Agony in the Garden are variously attributed to either or both of the artists. The second chapel on the left, the Raimondi Chapel (1640), was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini . It includes Francesco Baratta 's Saint Francis in Ecstasy and sculptures by Andrea Bolgi and Niccolò Sale. At

120-676: The Transfiguration , graced the high altar. At the start of the Napoleonic period, the altarpiece was expropriated by treaty by the French. it is now in the Vatican pinacoteca. The altar currently displays a copy by Cammuccini of Guido Reni 's Crucifixion of St. Peter (also now in Vatican Museums ). Although there is no grave marker, tradition has it that Beatrice Cenci —executed in 1599 for

140-623: The Franciscans , founded by the Blessed Amadeus of Portugal , who served as confessor to Pope Sixtus IV from 1472. The church was rebuilt through the generous funding of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. It was consecrated in 1500 by Pope Alexander VI . It is a titular church , whose current title holder, since 1 March 2008, is James Francis Cardinal Stafford . The church is decorated with artworks by prominent 16th- and 17th-century masters. Until 1797, Raphael 's final masterpiece,

160-506: The English government, these four Irish noblemen fled their country accompanied with ninety followers. Tyrconnell died in 1608; Cathbharr and Dungannon died in 1609. They all died of fever, probably malaria , which was caught during an ill-fated holiday to Ostia in July 1608. Their tombs are covered with marble inscribed slabs with coloured borders, crests and shields. They are about 12 feet from

180-621: The San Pietro in Montorio Entombment that is indebted to Caravaggio's version of the same subject in the Vatican Museums . Baburen also painted a Capture of Christ ( Borghese Gallery ) for Scipione Borghese and Christ Washing the Feet of the Apostles ( Gemäldegalerie , Berlin ) for Vincenzo Giustiniani. The Utrecht works made between 1621 as 1624, the final years of Baburen's career, merged

200-500: The altar on the left as you face it and are normally covered by a carpet. Tyrone died in 1616 and was buried in the church with much less solemnity, likely due to leaving very little funds. The original simple tombstone was lost in about 1849, but the text of the short inscription was copied: " D.O.M. Hugonis principis ONelli ossa" (Dedicated to God the Best and Greatest. The bones of Prince Hugh O'Neill). In 1989, Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich laid

220-534: The chapel is Julius III's scandalous 'nephew', Cardinal Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte . The last chapel on the left contains a Baptism of Christ , attributed to Daniele da Volterra , and stucco-work and ceiling frescoes by Giulio Mazzoni . A pupil of Antoniazzo Romano frescoed the third chapel with the Saint Anne, Virgin, and Child . Dirck van Baburen , a central figure of the Dutch Caravaggisti , painted

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240-564: The close follower of Caravaggio , Bartolomeo Manfredi . Baburen also came to the attention of the art collectors and patrons Vincenzo Giustiniani and cardinal Scipione Borghese , and possibly under their influence he received the commission to paint the altarpiece of the Entombment for the chapel of the Pietà in San Pietro in Montorio around 1617. Baburen was one of the earliest artists to belong to

260-450: The group of Dutch-speaking artists active in Rome in the seventeenth-century known as the " Bentvueghels " ("Birds of a Feather"); his nickname was "Biervlieg" ("Beer Fly", or one who drinks a lot). In late 1620, Baburen returned to Utrecht, where he began painting genre scenes. Until his death in 1624 the painter, along with Hendrick ter Brugghen and Gerard van Honthorst , helped establish

280-447: The high altar are two tombs: that of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and his son Hugh O'Neill, 4th Baron Dungannon , who predeceased him, and the tomb shared by Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell , and his brother Cathbharr , both of them younger brothers of Hugh Roe O'Donnell . At least eleven Irish exiles were interred at San Pietro in Montorio, though not all have commemorative slabs. In 1607, following increased hostility from

300-455: The murder of her abusive father and made famous by Percy Bysshe Shelley , among others—is buried below the high altar. The first chapel on the right contains Sebastiano del Piombo 's Flagellation and Transfiguration (1516–24). Michelangelo , who had befriended Sebastiano in Rome, supplied figure drawings that were incorporated into the Flagellation . The second chapel has

320-654: The stylistic and thematic innovations now known as the Utrecht School of Caravaggisti . He was buried on 28 February 1624 in the Buurkerk, a medieval church which now houses the Museum Speelklok . Around 1629, Constantijn Huygens noted Baburen as one of the important Dutch painters active in the early decades of the seventeenth century. Dirck van Baburen's career was short, and only a few of his paintings are known today. He mostly painted religious subjects in Rome, including

340-438: The visual characteristics learnt from Caravaggio and Manfredi into genre, mythological and history painting . Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan ( Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam ), for example, adapts Caravaggio's upside-down figure of St. Paul from the Conversion of St. Paul ( Santa Maria del Popolo , Rome) for the position of the fallen Prometheus , who was punished for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mortals. He

360-670: Was a Dutch painter and one of the Utrecht Caravaggisti . Dirck van Baburen was probably born in Wijk bij Duurstede , but his family moved to Utrecht when he was still young. He was also known as Teodoer van Baburen and Theodor Baburen. The earliest reference to the artist is in the 1611 records of the Utrecht Guild of St. Luke as a pupil of Paulus Moreelse . Sometime between 1612 and 1615, he travelled to Rome . There, he collaborated with fellow countryman David de Haen and befriended

380-465: Was among the first artists to make use of genre subjects such as musicians and cardplayers. One of his best-known works is The Procuress ( Museum of Fine Arts , Boston ). It depicts a man offering a coin for the services of a lute -playing prostitute while an old woman, the lady's procuress, inspects his money. This painting (or a copy) was owned by Johannes Vermeer 's mother-in-law and appears in two of that artist's works, The Concert (stolen from

400-506: 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. This article about a sculpture in Italy

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