Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Italy / Varallo / Sacro Monte / Chapel 9

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Life of Christ / Infancy / Flight into Egypt / Joseph's Second Dream

Further details

Statues of the Virgin and Child are by Gaudenzio Ferrari c. 1515-17 (or c.1510) from the old House of Loreto chapel. The other sculptures are attributed to Fermo Stella da Caravaggio, but this has been debated. Frescoes have been attributed to Giulio Cesare Luini, but this is also uncertain.

Artist or creator

Ferrari, Gaudenzio (c1470-1546) and
Luini, Giulio Cesare (born c1512, died after 1565)

Date

1510 (circa) - 1572

Location

Varallo, Sacro Monte (Chapel 9)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Elena De Filippis, Sacro Monte di Varallo (Borgosesia: Tipolitografia, 2009); Stefania Stefani Perrone, Guida al Sacro Monte di Varallo (Turin: Kosmos, 1995).

Find out more

Web resources

Sacro Monte di Varallo website, with article by Casimiro Debiaggi.

Rights and Permissions

This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License

Acknowledgements

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

Contact

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