Funerary Mask of San Giacomo della Marca
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death mask , funeral , portrait , bust
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According to the church signage in Santa Maria la Nova in Naples, this is a funeral mask of S. Giacomo della Marca, made from a cast taken from the saint's face three days after his death in 1476. Certainly, doing life and death masks of prominent people was a practice done in this period, and this work appears to have been made from a death mask. However, no documents attest to the existence of this death mask portrait of the saint until the nineteenth century. Photograph(s) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Santa Maria La Nova, Naples
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Church signage; P. Silvestro Candela, S. Giacomo della Marca e Santa Maria la Nova di Napoli (Naples: 1972), pp. 85 n. 9, 87; pl. 16.