![]() ![]() Stefania Macioce, 183-84, notes 188-191, plus Appendix A, “Documenti dalla contabilità della Dataria Apostolica (1655-1667), 194-199). 184, “Alessandro VII Chigi e l’arte orafa tra politica e misticismo,” in Ori nell’arte: Per una storia del potere segreto delle gemme, ed. Pages 199-200: Bernini as Alexander VII’s artistic factotum and general contractor… and a note about the little known Bernini assistant, Arrigo GiardéĪmong the many little artistic services rendered by Bernini to Pope Alexander VII we may now add this one, discovered in a document published in 2007 by Jacopo Curzietti: in December 1655 Bernini was paid 12 scudi for having procured for Alexander 3 small putti made of ivory sculpted by “monsù Pietro francese scultore,” whom Curzietti identifies as the very accomplished Pierre Puget (1620-94) of Marseilles (Jacopo Curzietti, p. ![]()
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