Mural Paintings from the Herrera Chapel

In 1602, the Spanish nobleman Juan Enriquez de Herrera dedicated a chapel in the church of Santiago, the Spanish Franciscan of Rome to Diego de Alcala, commissioning Saint Didacus of Alcalá Presenting Juan de Herrera's Son to Christ and frescoes from Carracci. The mural decoration, with scenes from the saint's life, was done by the Bolognese painter Annibale Carracci. In 1604 began designing the master of all the preparatory cartoons, but he came ill while personally directing the work 'in situ'. So, the work was finished by his collaborators, who included Giovanni Lanfranco, Sisto Badalocchio and Francesco Albani. The frescoes in the Herrera chapel were transferred to canvas at the request of the sculptor Antonio Solá, at the expense of Ferdinand VII, and arrived in Spain in 1851. They are now distributed between MNAC and Museo del Prado.

The group consists of 16 items, 9 of which are kept at the MNAC[2] and the other 7 at the Museo del Prado in Madrid. From the former church of San Giacomo degli Spagnuoli in Rome.[3]

#	Image	Title	Authors	Museum	Reference
1		Apostles around the Empty Sepulchre	Carracci and Francesco Albani	MNAC	[4]
2		Miracle of the Roses	Carracci, Francesco Albani and Domenico Zampieri	MNAC	[5]
3		Assumption of the Virgin	Carracci and Albani	MNAC	[6]
4		Everlasting Father	Carracci and Albani	MNAC	[7]
5		Healing the Man Born Blind	Carracci and Albani	MNAC	[8]
6		Saint Paul	Carracci and Albani	MNAC	[9]
7		Saint Peter	Carracci and Albani	MNAC	[10]
8		Predicació de Sant Dídac	Carracci and Sisto Badalocchio	MNAC	[11]
9		Apparition of Saint Didacus above his sepulchre-	Carraci and Sisto Badalocchio	MNAC	[12]
10		Apoteosis de san Francisco		Museo del Prado	[13]
11		Apoteosis de Santiago el mayor		Museo del Prado	[14]
12		Apoteosis de san Lorenzo		Museo del Prado	[15]
13-17		Escenas de San Diego de Alcalá, titular de la capilla		Museo del Prado	[16]

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