# View of the Carafa Chapel

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## Artwork

- Artist: [LIPPI, Filippino](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

The private chapel was an especially effective means of denoting status within the Church hierarchy. The Carafa Chapel at Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, commissioned by Cardinal Oliviero Carafa from Filippino Lippi, is among the most ornate of the period. On the right wall of the chapel is a representation of the Triumph of St Thomas over Heresy, and, in the lunette above, scenes from the life of the saint. The four reclining female figures in the vaults are figures of sibyls.

## Related artworks

- [Abraham](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/abraham-r0c00fae633820f>)
- [Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adam-rb26722dac0a6fd>)
- [Adoration of the Child \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adoration-of-the-child-detail-r5993e7ada38874>)
- [Adoration of the Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adoration-of-the-child-rb93f60041af347>)
- [Adoration of the Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adoration-of-the-child-rc1ff21ba2bf52b>)
- [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adoration-of-the-magi-detail-r015a88a84cff0b>)
- [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adoration-of-the-magi-detail-r874915fcb5fba4>)
- [Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adoration-of-the-magi-r92a022f57bc7d7>)
- [Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/adoration-of-the-magi-rc7cc74a5e3624f>)
- [Allegory of Music or Erato](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/allegory-of-music-or-erato-rf583d0ee941d9d>)
- [Allegory](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/allegory-r758b583e829c0f>)
- [Altar wall of the Carafa Chapel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lippi-filippino-r8a702a6b363506/altar-wall-of-the-carafa-chapel-r552c743e630566>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)