Rome, 1785. Materials: White Carrara marble; Rosso antico marble; gilt bronze; red Egyptian porphyry. LITERATURE: Alvar González-Palacios, catalogue entry in Luigi Valadier at the Louvre, or Antiquity Exalted, Paris, 1994, pp. 123–125, cat. no. 9. The Monument to Pope Pius VI was originally, as seen in the engraving, crowned with an agate shell placed behind… Continue reading MONUMENT TO PIUS VI
