Image View Description

Interior: View of Crossing (high altar)

Date

1446

Creator
Estouteville, Guillaume d’ (French patron, 1412-1483), Pietrasanta, Jacopo da (Italian architect, ca. 1452-1490)
Work Type
architecture
Style/Period
Renaissance
Culture
Italian
Location
Rome (Italy)
Notes

The high altar was consecrated in 1628, and enshrines a Byzantine icon of the Blessed Virgin traditionally painted by St Luke. Unlike popular thought it was not designed by Bernini but Orazio Turriani.

Image Source

Photography by Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History, Columbia University

Photographer
Emily Shaw
Record ID
1213_rome2012_santagostino_vr_002