Baroque

Sir Thomas Street - Worcester Cathedral

walwyn Tue, 08/16/2011 - 02:06

This memorial to Sir Thomas Street (d1696) is the work of the sculptor Joseph Wilton a founding member of the Royal Academy, and was made around 1774.

Thomas Deacon - Peterborough Cathedral

walwyn Sun, 10/09/2011 - 20:36

White marble monument to Thomas Deacon (d1725) and wife.

Thomas Lucy and wife Alice - Charlecote, Warwickshire

walwyn Wed, 05/26/2010 - 20:53

Black and white Carrara marble monument to Thomas Lucy (d1640) and his wife Alice.

Tomb of Algarotti Ovidio Arminio - Camposanto Monumentale, Pisa

walwyn Fri, 10/10/2025 - 16:04

This elaborate Baroque tomb, located in the portico of the Camposanto Monumentale, commemorates Algarotti Ovidio Arminio, a disciple of Sir Isaac Newton, and is dated to the year 1765 (as inscribed).

Tomb of Galileo Galilei - Santa Croce Florence

walwyn Sat, 10/27/2012 - 22:47

The tomb of Galileo Galilei (d1642) at Santa Croce in Florence was erected in 1737. It was designed by Giulio Foggini and contains a bust of Galileo Galilei (by Giovanni Battista Foggini), and figures representing Astronomy (by Vincenzo Foggini), and Geometry (by Girolamo Ticciati).

Warwick - Last Judgment after Michelangelo

walwyn Fri, 10/21/2011 - 20:13

This "Doom" painting in St Mary's Warwick, is copy (1678), by Richard Bird, of Michelangelo's Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. The left hand side of the work has been restored but the right hand side left unrestored at present.