Church
Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore
Augustinian basilica with a Renaissance chapel and a beheaded condottiero's marble tomb effigy.
Location
About this audio guide
In the Bentivoglio Chapel of the Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore in Bologna, this guide centers on the marble effigy of Antongaleazzo Bentivoglio, a mercenary captain carved by Jacopo della Quercia around fourteen thirty-eight, sculpted as he looked riding home rather than as he died. It follows the Bentivoglio family's exile in fourteen thirty-five and Antongaleazzo's decision to ride back into Bologna at the head of a crowd of fellow exiles that December, hoping to reclaim what his family had lost. Look closely and you can still see the tool marks in the carved folds of his cloak.
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