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Rome, San Pietro in Montorio: MRA-ITA-Rom342

Type Sample Item

Sample ID

MRA-ITA-Rom342

Sample Material Type

Salt

Sample Sub-type

powder

Weight

weight value (g)
0.01
Notes
sample weight+plastic holder

Other info about sample identity

5 [number on the plastic holder]; 0141.0145 [hand-written note]

Geographic Location

Country
Italy
Place
Rome

Site/monument

Italy (ITA)
Rome
San Pietro in Montorio
Tempietto del Bramante

Historical note about the site/monument

The church of the Trinità dei Monti (Trinity of the Mounts) was built between 1494 and 1594 to house the French religious order of Minims under the initiative of French kings Louis XII and his son Charles VIII. It stands on a prominent position above the Spanish steps and is crowned with a pair of symmetrical bell towers designed by Giacomo della Porta and Carlo Maderno. The Chapel of the Assumption, also called Chapel of Lucrezia della Rovere (niece of Pope Julius III), was ceded in the mid-16th century and bears mural paintings by Daniele Ricciarelli da Volterra (and his pupils) and Gaspar Becerra. Executed in the years between 1548 and 1560, the paintings have a Mannerist style and depict scenes including the Assumption, the Massacre of the Innocents, The birth of the Virgin and the Coronation of Mary.

Source:
Wikipedia contributors. (2021, March 21). Trinità dei Monti. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 10:08, May 16, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trinità_dei_Monti&oldid=1013472653.

Felici, A. C., Fronterotta, G., Piacentini, M., Nicolais, C., Sciuti, S., Vendittelli, M., & Vazio, C. (2004). The wall paintings in the former Refectory of the Trinità dei Monti convent in Rome: relating observations from restoration and archaeometric analyses to Andrea Pozzo’s own treatise on the art of mural painting. Journal of cultural heritage5(1), 17-25.

Chronological period (sample)

16th century

Other info about sample provenance

Subterranean Chapel, External staircase to lower chapel. Sample from rendered wall  [Report: Conservation study of Bramante's Tempietto, ICCROM Laboratory, Technical reports, 1995]

Date of sampling

Unknown
Yes
Year/Decade/Century
1995

Other related archival documents

James Ashby, Michael Chambers, Harry Hautajarvi, Sheena Meagher, Vassilios Papageorgiou, 'Conservation study of Bramante's Tempietto'. ICCROM - ARC1995, Group Seminar .

Related samples

This sample is related to samples from MRA-ITA-Rom338 to MRA-ITA-Rom341

Other information about the sample

The samples were collected for material identification (section analytical research)

Other materials/notes

white salt efflorescence

Documents ( analytical research)

Description
Repport ICCROM Laboratory, Technical reports, 1995 [page]

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