Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Italy / Graglia / Sacro Monte / Chapel 17

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Life of Christ / Infancy / Presentation in the Temple / Virgin holding Child / Without doves

Further details

Detail of chapel 17. Sculptures attributed to the son of Jan de Wespin, Guglielmo de Wespin, from the first phase of commissioning at the Sacro Monte (Sciolla; Fontana and Sorenti). Christina Roaf and others have considered Giovanni d'Enrico as a possible artist (Centini).

Artist or creator

de Wespin, Guglielmo (active c1624) or
d'Enrico, Giovanni (1559-1644)

Date

1615 (circa) - 1624 (circa)

Location

Graglia, Sacro Monte (Chapel 17)

Associated persons

Christina Roaf (Photographer (analogue))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Massimo Centini, I Sacri Monti dell'arco alpino italiano: dal mito dell'altura alle ricostruzioni della Terra Santa nella cultura controriformista (Ivrea: Priuli & Verlucca, 1990); Federico Fontana and Paolo Sorenti (eds.), Sacri Monti: note architettonico-urbanistiche (Varallo: Tipografia editrice Zanfa, 1980); Gianni Carlo Sciolla, Il Biellese dal medioevo all'Ottocento: artisti, committeni, cantieri (Turin: Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino, 1980).

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Acknowledgements

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

Contact

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