Ciborium
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Domenico Gregorini
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Ciborium , Baldacchino , Baldachin , Baroque , Relic , Urn
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Over the high altar of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome is an eighteenth-century ciborium made of four pink marble columns with decorations in gilded stucco and wood designed by architect Domenico Gregorini (1692–1777). Gregorini was tasked with the renovation of the church between 1741 and 1744. The columns are decorated with the papal stemma of Benedict XIV (reigned 1740–1758) who commissioned the renovation. Below is a basalt urn containing the relics of Saints Caesarius and Anastasius.
In her thesis on the eighteenth-century rebuilding of the church, Ellen Annette Plummer writes that although she is confident in the attribution to Gregorini, Francesco Borromini’s (1599–1667) influence is the “ultimate source for the baldacchino.”
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Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome
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Claudio Varagnoli, “GREGORINI, Domenico,” Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani 59 (2002); Ellen Annette Plummer, “The Eighteenth-Century Rebuilding of S. Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome. (Volumes I And II) (Italy)” (PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1983), 166–170.