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Sculpture in the Cappella Colleoni, Bergamo
COMMENTARY
The Colleoni Chapel is a Renaissance adjunct to a Gothic church. Its flat façade, designed by Amadeo, is framed by tall pilasters decorated with reliefs of saints and emperor heads, and is broken by an elaborate central doorway with a deeply recessed window over it, by two lateral windows, and by niches filled with busts.
Inside the chapel are the carved tomb of the condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni and the tomb of Medea Colleoni, moved from the Dominican sanctuary of Santa Maria at Basella in 1842).
SELECTED WORKS
18 RECORDS

Façade of the Cappella Colleoni
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Exterior
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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View of the Cappella Colleoni
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Façade of the Cappella Colleoni (detail)
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Façade of the Cappella Colleoni (detail)
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Façade of the Cappella Colleoni (detail)
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Façade of the Cappella Colleoni (detail)
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Façade of the Cappella Colleoni (detail)
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Façade of the Cappella Colleoni (detail)
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Façade of the Cappella Colleoni (detail)
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Funerary Monument of Bartolomeo Colleoni
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Funerary Monument of Bartolomeo Colleoni
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Funerary Monument of Bartolomeo Colleoni (detail)
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Funerary Monument of Bartolomeo Colleoni (detail)
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Funerary Monument of Bartolomeo Colleoni (detail)
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Playing Children
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Interior view
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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Tomb of Medea Colleoni
AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio
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