# Cardinal Prospero Lambertini [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CRESPI, Giuseppe Maria]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 80 x 58 cm ## Commentary Prospero Lambertini \(1675-1758\), was pope from 1740 to 1758 as Benedict XIV. He became cardinal in 1728, and archbishop of Bologna between 1731 and 1740. ## Related artworks - [Apotheosis of Hercules and the Four Seasons \(detail\)]() - [Apotheosis of Hercules and the Four Seasons]() - [Assembly of the Gods and the Parcae]() - [Assembly of the Gods \(detail\)]() - [Baptism]() - [Bookshelves]() - [Communion]() - [Confession]() - [Confirmation]() - [Count Fulvio Grati]() - [Death of St Joseph]() - [Dice Players]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()