Monumento Sepolcrale di Diego ex Valdes in S. Giacomo de Spagnuoli

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Title

Monumento Sepolcrale di Diego ex Valdes in S. Giacomo de Spagnuoli

Subject

Sepulchral monument of Diego EX. Valdes in St. James of the Spaniards

Description

Table VII
Not many years that the hospice attached to the church of St. Mary in Montserrat, has made at least two Valenziani and the Aragonese , the first in 1319 , the other in 1495 , a vague porch was built with the design of architect Knight Peter Camporese. And this porch welcomed all the works of culture that came to fame as a valuable existing in St. James, the Spanish national church already threatened to ruin. Now among the various monuments of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries there greeted especially true for purity and ease of style that does not gracefully proportioned and the richness of ornamented and why in 1506 the Spanish bishop Ex- Valdes prepared himself. The Knight Tosi, studying in all its details and the style with which this work diligently conducted, believed to recognize that the same sansovino explained in other sculptures for certain the outputs were from his own chisel: therefore he drew from the same work as its author. If any esteem having to disagree with the opinion that it was precisely those the author will not be able to stop not agree in saying , will be conducted this work that only could a hand so valiant as that of Sansovino. Two large pillars and an elegant close in if the monument. Three compartments in the large base are the ones smallest side-arms of the deceased, the average and the largest stones, where laws as he himself ordered the sepulcher, and how many years he lived plucked death on December 26, 1506 being the butler of the Pope Alexander VI. On this basis, two shelves stick out from a band full of gentle grooves to hold up a delicate frame supporting the urn to bury the beautiful by the grace of proportions and for the ornaments: lies stretched over it on the deceased prelate. In the middle of the ballot is written a Latin couplet: there was in this wise counsel to prepare the grave before the death of that and uncertain time. A Greek cross in the middle and the two candlesticks burning in the sides occupy three slots marked in that part of the wall that you have between the urn and the beautiful frieze composed of heads of scrafini, which runs from one to the other capitals of the two pillars. There arises on those close to the monument in semicircular shape a band of exquisite work, leaving between itself and the frame bezel that contains a Virgin and Child flanked by two kneeling angels.
Anyone who stands in looking at this monument is not removed since it does not contemplate any first convinced upheld in it all the qualities that essence, represent a masterpiece of the art of that era.

Creator

Drawn by Francesco M. Tosi

Publisher

Presso l'Editore Proprietario

Date

15th and 16th Sculpture

Contributor

Unknown Donor

Rights

Geneseo Foundation

Relation

Volumes 2, 3, 4, and 5

Format

20 x 16

Language

Italian

Type

Print

Identifier

Italian Monuments in Rome created during the 15th and 16th Century

Coverage

Prints were made circa 1835 to 1860

Files

IMG_5684.JPG

Citation

Drawn by Francesco M. Tosi , “Monumento Sepolcrale di Diego ex Valdes in S. Giacomo de Spagnuoli,” LLB Galleries, accessed November 21, 2024, https://artgalleries.milne-library.org/items/show/338.