Of some of Michelangelo's funerary monuments in the design of the sarcophagus (e.g. The 1644 monument to Pope Urban VIII was located by Bernini in the northern side of the apse of S. Monument to Pope Urban VIII in the apse of S. Both monuments are not in chapels, but on the wall of the inner façade. (or maybe their customers) especially in the last part of the XVIIth century and during the XVIIIth century.īoth tombs show a representation of Death in the form of a winged skeleton holding a portrait of theĭead or a celebratory inscription. Two minor monuments he designed (not executed) in the 1640's ended by influencing many other artists Giacomo alla Lungaraĭesigned many funerary monuments of very different size and cost to cater for all the needs Lorenzo in Damaso (right) Monument to Ippolito Merenda in S. (left) Monument to Alessandro Valtrini in S.

Monuments were just put along the walls or on the pillars of the churches. They wanted a monument inside the church to mark their graves: the optimum was to have a familyĬhapel, but this was reserved to a limited number of very rich families, so very often the Because the rich were buried in the churches, To rely on funerary monuments for their living. The ceiling, the sculptures were limited to a few busts and antique statues, so sculptors had Number of sculptures in the decoration of a rich palace: while the paintings covered the walls up to Still set up as a private property shows the lack of balance between the number of paintings and the A visit to Galleria Doria Pamphilj or Galleria Colonna in Rome which are This page deals with the representation of Death in sculptures in Romeĭuring the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. (a detail of the monument to Pope Alexander VII)

Remember that you will die