Girolamo Lombardo

(1506 - 1590)

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This important high relief bronze repeats the similar subject created for the Milan cathedral ciborium by Aurelio, Girolamo and Ludovico Lombardo. Commissioned by Pius VI in the middle of the 16th century, it was cast in the Loreto workshop of the Lombardo family together with other seven episodes from the life of Christ.

The same reliefs were replicated for the monumental tabernacle of the Vasto cathedral, now in the city's diocesan museum. Some time later they were replicated with some variations on the doors of the Loreto cathedral.