| Mural Paintings from the Herrera Chapel | |
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| Artist | Annibale Carracci |
| Year | 1604–1606 |
| Type | Fresco transferred to canvas |
| Location | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya & Museo del Prado, Barcelona & Madrid |
The Mural Paintings from the Herrera Chapel is group of mural painting by Annibale Carracci and collaborators, conserved between the National Art Museum of Catalonia [1] and de Museo del Prado.
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 |
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| 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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