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The bust of Monsignor Pedro de Foix
Montoya in the monument of Orazio Torriani, previously
in the church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli, was
transferred, at the end of the 19th century, to a room
in the church of Santa Maria di Monserrato.
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In the lines of the vault, carved around
1622, Bernini succeeded in rendering an image of pulsating
vitality, so impressive as to cause in one of those present,
according to the witty anectode told by the sculptor himself,
to say "This is Montoya petrified!". |
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