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
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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.
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
Collection
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.