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Saint Peter
Leandro Gagliardi (Leandro Gagliardi (Italian, 1729-1798))
1765/66
- Medium
- Gilt bronze
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Dimensions
- 49.6 × 21 × 20.2 cm (19 1/2 × 8 1/4 × 7 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Applied Arts of Europe
- Credit line
- David Adler and Decorative Arts fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This magnificent altar set, made by the Roman Rococo goldsmith Leandro Gagliardi, is comprised of statuettes of four apostles—Saints Andrew, John, Peter, and Paul; four candlesticks; a crucifix; and three frames to hold cards indicating the part of the Mass being performed. The altar set was made for Flavio Chigi (1711–1771) and bears the Chigi and Albani coats of arms. It might have been intended for use in the family chapel of the Palazzo Chigi in the Piazza Colonna, Rome.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
