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Title: Antonio Pollaiuolo
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Cruttwell, Maud
Subjects: Pollaiolo, Antonio, 1426?-1498 Pollaiolo, Piero, ca. 1443-1496
Publisher: London : Duckworth and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e placed tem-porarily in the nave of the Volto Santo, where theyremained until the completion of the new building in1621. The relic was then placed in one of the fourLoggie of the dome, where it still remains, and theMonument of Innocent was removed to its presentposition near the Cappella del Coro. It has beenaltered from the original plan, the recumbent figure,which used to rest on the projecting bracket over theseated statue, having been placed below it, while thewhole of the surrounding marble work was added. Inthe Collection of Herr von Beckerath, Berlin, is a pen-drawing of the seventeenth century, showing the Tombin its original state, probably sketched j ust before thealteration. The Pope is seated in full pontificals, one hand raisedhigh in the papal benediction, the other grasping thehead of the Lance. Below are inscribed the followingwords: INNOC^NTIVS VIII CIIBO lANVENSIS . PONT . OPT . MAX VIXIT . ANNOS VII . ME . X . DI . XXV OBIIT . AN . DNI . MCDIIIC . M . IVLII XLVIII
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Anderson^ Rome TOMB OF INNOCENT VIIT. BRONZE. BY ANTONIOPOLLAIUOLO. S. PIETRO, ROME Face p. 200 THE TOMBS OF THE POPES 201 On either side, enthroned in niches, are the four theo-logical Virtues, and above, beneath the heavy bracketwhere once lay the recumbent figure, are the stemmi ofthe Pope and Cardinal Lorenzo. In the lunette overare the three Cardinal Virtues, Charity in a mandorlasupported by Faith and Hope. Below lies the statue of the dead Pope, on a bronzesarcophagus decorated with the Cybo stemma and thePapal arms. On it is inscribed : IN INNOCENTIAMEA INGRESSVS SVMREDIME ME DOMINEET MISERERE ME. Here the original work of Antonio ends. The frameworkof coloured marbles, the surmounting stemmi and urns,the marble brackets which support the throne, and thelong inscription, date from the seventeenth century.* * The later inscription is as follows : D . o . M . INNOCENTIO . VIII . CYBO . PONT . MAX ITALICAE . PACIS . PERPETVQ . CVSTODI NOVI . ORBIS . SVG . AEVO . INVENT I . GLORIA

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