Tomb of Pope Urban VIII

Funerary monument to Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini, pope 1623 to 1644) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, finished in 1647. It stands in the right-hand niche of the apse of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, beside the Chair of Saint Peter. A bronze figure of the pope, seated and giving a blessing, rises on a white marble pedestal above the sarcophagus, flanked by marble allegories of Charity, with children, and Justice, with a sword and scales. At the center a bronze skeleton representing Death writes the pope's name on a scroll, and Barberini bees appear on the monument.

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