Saint Camillus de Lellis' terracotta statue

Saint Camillus de Lellis’ statue in the National Museum of Palazzo Venezia in Rome is a gilded terracotta scale model of the homonym statue situated in Basilica Vaticana, that dates back to 1737.

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Saint Camillus de Lellis’ terracotta statue

In 1920 it became part of the collection of the National Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo as a work of Alessandro Algardi. Later in 1954, the scale model was attribuited to Giuseppe Rusconi because of its similarity with other Rusconi’s works . Only in 2002 Debenedetti, an italian art historian, attribuited this model to Pietro Pacilli as the first composition of the sculpture situated in San Pietro.

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  • Main text and photos by Francesca Soriente moc.liamg|41acsecnarfetneiros#| and Sara Sergio moc.liamg|961oigresaras#| (December 2017)

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