Year 1636–38 (1636–38) Medium Marble relief Dimensions Life-size skeleton Catalogue 43 | Type Sculpture Subject Ippolito Merenda Artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini | |
Location San Giacomo alla Lungara, Rome Similar Memorial to Alessand, Memorial to Maria Raggi, Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, Tomb of Pope Alexande, Fontana delle Api | ||
The Memorial to Ippolito Merenda is a funerary monument designed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1636 and 1638. Along with the similar monument for Alessandro Valtrini, this artwork was a startling new approach to funerary monuments, incorporating dynamic, flowing inscriptions being dragged by a moving figure of death. It is in the church of San Giacomo alla Lungara in Rome.
Merenda was from Cesena in Emilia Romagna. He left a bequest to San Giacomo della Lungara (of 20,000 Roman scudi) on his death in 1636. One of the nephews of the then pope Urban VIII, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, then commissioned the monument from Bernini in recognition of Merenda's contribution.
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