Room 9. La Cappella della Pace
Room 9. La Cappella della Pace
Created in 1961 for the Roman home of Don Giuseppe De Luca, the Cappella della Pace was conceived by Giacomo Manzù in collaboration with his friend, the prelate who commissioned the work. It became a place of private prayer for Msgr. De Luca, and after his death in 1962, the Chapel was transferred to Sotto il Monte, the birthplace of Pope John XXIII, before reaching the Vatican in 1973 where it was integrated into the collection itinerary, in spaces selected and designed by Manzù himself.
The addition of the bronze works St. Ambrose and St. Charles Borromeo, to honour Pope Paul VI’s link with Milan, completed the work in its entirety, demonstrating the sculptor’s extraordinary technical ability and his capacity to visually translate Msgr. De Luca’s iconographic suggestions in a language faithful to tradition, but renewed with delicate irony.