Prestinari, Cristoforo (c1570-1623) - 1614 (circa) | The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

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Detail of chapel 6, depicting Francis sending the friars to preach in the background (apse) and a fragment of the scene of miracles confirming the teaching in the foreground (nave). Sculptures by Prestinari workshop and Dionigi Bussola; frescoes by the della Rovere brothers (I Fiamminghini).

Artist or creator

Prestinari, Cristoforo (c1570-1623) (workshop)
Rovere, Giovanni Battista della (il Fiamminghino) (born 1561, died before c1633)

Date

1614 (circa) - 1661 (circa)

Location

Orta, Sacro Monte (Chapel 6)

Associated persons

Christina Roaf (Photographer (analogue))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Elena De Filippis and Fiorella Mattioli Carcano, Guida al Sacro Monte di Orta (Novara: Riserva Naturale Speciale del Sacro Monte di Orta, 1991).

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Acknowledgements

Image digitised with the generous support of the Roaf and Demuth families.

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