Allegory of the Papacy of Clement XI

ca. 1720 (Baroque)

52.2 cm 70.4 cm

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In this allegory, various symbolic motifs are brought together to express Clement XI's papacy (r. 1700-1721) as an abstract concept. The standing woman at center wearing the papal tiara is holding her cape in a protective manner over a little temple supported by angels. She ma...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 96, as Tiepolo; 1897 catalogue: no. 355, as Sebastiano Ricci]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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