Galluppi tomb

A valuable example of the link between Tropea and the Sicilian artistic environment

The tomb is located in the second chapel on the right hand nave of the cathedral. It was commissioned by Antonello Galluppi, baron of Cirella, Ioppolo and Coccorino, for his five deceased children. 

The work has typical characteristics of tombs from the last quarter of the sixteenth century, such as the shape of the caisson and a certain taste for polychrome inserts in the white marble structure. 

For this reason it has rightly been compared to the Polizzi tomb, in the cathedral of Gerace, and therefore traced back to Lorenzo Calamech, certainly the maker of that work. 

The base of the tomb has an epigraph with the names of the deceased children as well as an eulogy of the profile of the client.

The bust of the client is placed on the caisson, supported by two pedestals in the shape of a lion's paw and richly decorated with a continuous frieze in relief and framed within a niche and surrounded by two seated angels with reclining heads.

 

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