Sant'Agostino

Date: 1446
Image View Description: Interior: View of Crossing (high altar)
Creator: Estouteville, Guillaume d’ (French patron, 1412-1483)
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


Link to Full Record