Resumen de The contract for Giuliano Finelli's monument to Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini
A previously unpublished contract in the Aldobrandini archive makes it possible to add another sculptural commission to Giuliano Finelli's (1601–53) œuvre. The contract for the monument to Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini is dated October 1632. It is hard to understand why Olimpia, Pietro's sister and heir, had to wait over ten years after her brother's death in 1621 to commission the monument. The detailed contract was for a marble sculpture of the Cardinal to be placed in the family chapel in S. Maria sopra Minerva. While it is not known why the monument was not completed, it would have been one of Finelli's first commissions for a larger than life-size, full-length sculpture. Not only does the document provide a fascinating example of a contract between a 17th-century patron and sculptor, it also illuminates Finelli's commissions around 1630, when he was first establishing an independent career in Rome.
