Illustration - Aerial Rome - Italy
ITALY - ROMA - VATICAN - INTERIOR OF ST. PETER'S BASILICA - PHOTO POINT 20 : SOUTHWESTERN AMBULATORY. ON THE RIGHT, THE TOMB OF FABIO CHIGI, POPE ALEXANDER VII, DIRECTED BY BERNINI. CONSIDERED ONE OF THE LARGEST TOMBS OF THE BAROQUE PERIOD, IT OCCUPIES A DELICATE POSITION, BEING LOCATED IN A NICHE ABOVE A DOOR IN A SMALL SACRISTY, BUT BERNINI USED THE DOOR IN A SYMBOLIC WAY. POPE ALEXANDER KNEELS ON HIS TOMB, FACING OUTWARD. THE TOMB IS SET ON A LARGE SHROUD DRAPED IN PATTERNED RED MARBLE AND IS SUPPORTED BY FOUR FEMALE STATUES, OF WHICH ONLY THE TWO LOCATED AT THE FRONT ARE FULLY VISIBLE. THEY REPRESENT CHARITY AND TRUTH. THE FOOT OF TRUTH RESTS ON A GLOBE OF THE WORLD, ITS TOE BEING SYMBOLICALLY PIERCED BY THE THORN OF PROTESTANT ENGLAND. THE STATUE OF THE WINGED SKELETON OF DEATH, COMES OU Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM
- Product Code
- ILEA004593135
- Registered date
- 2017/11/15 00:00:00
- Credit
- Abaca Press / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- Compoint Stephane/Only World/ABACA
- Media size
- 9000 × 4500 pixel
- Resolution
- 72 dpi
- Deployment size
- 9.44(MB)*
- Special instruction
*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.
