Bust of Giovanni Vigevano

Tomb of Giovanni Vigevano
Artist Bernini and others
Year 1618-1631
Type Marble tomb
Location Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

The bust of Giovanni Vigevano is a marble sculpture by the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. It was likely to have been sculpted in the late 1610s, c. 1618-1620, and was then inserted into the tomb for Vigevano after he died in 1630. The tomb is in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Rudolf Wittkower, Bernini, the Sculptor of the Roman Baroque, 1997 (4th ed.), p. 232
  2. ^ Charles Avery, Bernini: Genius of the Baroque, 2006, p. 37