Object Description
102 CLEMENT IX Rospigliosi, Pope 1667-69 1669
Obv. Bust to left, wearing cap, mozzetta and stole. Around, AMPLIATA . BASILICA . LIBERIANA; below, CLEMENS . IX . PONT . MAX . AN . SAL . MDCLXIX
Rev. The apse of Santa Maria Maggiore. Around, DILIGIT . DOMINVS . DECOREM . DOMVS . GENITRICIS . SVAE +
Bronze, 73 mm.
Clement IX commissioned Bernini to design the new apse facade of Santa Maria Maggiore, which is represented here. In 1673 Clement X, abandoning Bernini's project, had a new design executed by Carlo Rainaldi. Bernini's project adds a colonnade encircling the apse; Rainaldi omitted this.
Bibl.: Dworschak, pl. 4, no. 2, p. 37 (designed by Bernini and executed by Travani); Venuti, p. 281, no. 15 (DOMVS omitted in insc.); Bonnani, p. 716, no. 15; Tresor Papes, pl. 34, 1.