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Reliquary Saint Prosper
Carlo Guarnieri1751 - 1752
Museu de São Roque
Lisboa, Portugal
The reliquary of Saint Prosper has the format of a polygonal urn held by angels and by a palm tree, the lid being decorated with six flying angels. On the base, one can see medallions with scenes about St. John the Baptist's life, framed by ornamental elements made up of volutes, shells and garlands.
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- Title: Reliquary Saint Prosper
- Creator Lifespan: 1710 - 1774 ?
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Rome
- Creator Birth Place: Rome
- Date: 1751 - 1752
- Physical Dimensions: w30 x h81 x d34 cm
- Provenance: Museu de São Roque/Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
- Type: Metalwork
- Rights: Museu de São Roque/Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
- External Link: Museu de São Roque/Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
- Medium: Gilt silver
- Silversmith: Carlo Guarnieri
- Manufactured: Rome, Italy
- Comission: There were initially eight reliquaries commissioned by the Lisbon royal court on the 9th March 1744, with detailed instructions as to the shapes to adopt and what the reliquaries should contain therein. The respective drawings were sent from Rome to the king on the 23rd January 1745, by the ambassador Manuel Pereira de Sampaio. The execution of all eight reliquaries was initially commissioned to Carlo Guarnieri (1710-1774?); however, on an unknown date after May 1748, the production of four of them (missing today) was entrusted to Giuseppe Gagliardi. The four surviving reliquaries are two pairs of different morphology and composition: a pair conceived “ad urna” and the other pair “ad tempio”.
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