The Chigi Chapel or Chapel of the Madonna of Loreto (Italian: Cappella Chigi or Cappella della Madonna di Loreto) is the second chapel on the left-hand side of the nave in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. It is the only religious building of Raphael which has been preserved in its near original form. The chapel is a treasure trove of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and is ranked among the most important monuments in the basilica.
The ChigiChapel or Chapel of the Madonna of Loreto (Italian: Cappella Chigi or Cappella della Madonna di Loreto) is the second chapel on the left-hand...
Agostino Chigi, who was adopted into the Della Rovere family, to build a mausoleum replacing the second side chapel on the left in 1507. The chapel was dedicated...
Armour. These two portraits show us a very detailed background. The small ChigiChapel (or Cappella della Madonna del Voto) is situated in the right transept...
instruction (1514) above the arch of the ChigiChapel, the first altar on your right, commissioned by Agostino Chigi, the papal banker. The Deposition over...
The House of Chigi (IPA: [ˈkiːdʒi]) is an Italian princely family of Sienese origin descended from the counts of Ardenghesca, which possessed castles...
Agostino Andrea Chigi (29 November 1466 – April 11, 1520) was an Italian banker and patron of the Renaissance. Born in Siena, he was the son of the prominent...
The Chigi Palace (Italian: Palazzo Chigi [paˈlattso ˈkiːdʒi]) is a palace and former noble residence in Rome which is the seat of the Council of Ministers...
that have their own altar are often called chapels; the Lady chapel is a common type of these. Second, a chapel is a place of worship, sometimes interfaith...
Daniel and the Lion ChigiChapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome 1655-1656 Sculpture Marble 58 Habakkuk and the Angel ChigiChapel, Santa Maria del Popolo...
commission from Agostino Chigi to create his tomb in Santa Maria del Popolo, where Agostino had built a chapel (ChigiChapel). According to Vasari, Lorenzetto...
VII (Italian: Alessandro VII; 13 February 1599 – 22 May 1667), born Fabio Chigi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 April...
art. The Sistine Chapel is the large papal chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV, for whom the chapel is named. The ceiling...
but he did design, and decorate with mosaics, the ChigiChapel for the same patron, Agostino Chigi, the Papal Treasurer. Another building, for Pope Leo's...
Sistine Chapel The Sistine Chapel (/ˌsɪsˈtiːn ˈtʃæpəl/; Latin: Sacellum Sixtinum; Italian: Cappella Sistina [kapˈpɛlla siˈstiːna]) is a chapel in the...
1520–1524) (executed by Lorenzetto and Raffaello da Montelupo) Buildings ChigiChapel (1507–1520) (continued by other architects) Palazzo Jacopo da Brescia...
the old technique. Raphael's Creation of the World in the dome of the ChigiChapel in Santa Maria del Popolo is a notable example that was executed by a...
National Museum of Oriental Art Palaces in Rome Palazzo Barberini Palazzo Chigi Palazzo Colonna Palazzo Corsini Palazzo Farnese Quirinal Palace Palazzo...
engraver il Baviera to serve as her page. When commissioned by Agostino Chigi to decorate the Villa Farnesina, he was unable to dedicate himself properly...
Pietro Bracci (1743–59). He also sent some reliefs to Siena, for the Chigichapel in the Cathedral of Siena. In 1744 he was again working for the John...
publishing sets of engravings after Raphael's works in the dome of the ChigiChapel at Santa Maria del Popolo and after the ceiling frescoes in the Stanza...
marbles, is reminiscent of the interior of the Pantheon, of Raphael’s ChigiChapel in Santa Maria del Popolo (begun c. 1512), and of Baldassare Peruzzi's...
Lorenzetto in Rome with the execution of statues of Elijah and Jonah for the ChigiChapel in Santa Maria del Popolo (on designs by Raphael). He is also attributed...
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