Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Italy / Graglia / Sacro Monte / Church of San Carlo

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Saints A - Z / Carlo Borromeo / Life / Praying before the Dead Christ

Further details

Detail of the chapel inside the church of San Carlo. The chapel is produced around the time of the first phase of development at the Sacro Monte (1615-24) or just following the death of the founder of the site, Don Andrea Vilotti (Soldini dates its completion to 1629).

Artist or creator

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

Date

1616 (circa) - 1629 (circa)

Location

Graglia, Sacro Monte (Cappella di San Carlo)

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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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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