Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Sculptor, of Rome.  Pietro Bonanni, a pupil and associate of Pietro Tenerani, carved a marble statue of the Madonna and child for St Audoen's Catholic church, Dublin,, which was dedicated on 20 August 1847. The statue, which has sometimes been attributed to GIOVANNI MARIA BENZONI GIOVANNI MARIA BENZONI ,(1) is clearly signed and dated Petrus.Bonanni /fecit.Romae.1847.



References

For the commissioning of this statue see Eileen Kane, 'From Rome to Dublin in 1848:  A Madonna for St Audoens', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 16 (2000),151-156;  Brendan Grimes, Majestic Shrines and Graceful Sanctuaries: the church architecture of Patrick Byrne 1783-1864 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009), 70(illus.),72. 


(1) e.g. in N. Donnelly, Short histories of Dublin Parishes II (1911), 179, and A.P. Carey, Catholic Dublin: a guide, 1932, ?.


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HIGH STREET, ST AUDOEN'S CHURCH (RC)
Date: 1847
Nature: Statue of Madonna and Child. Commissioned Nov 1844. Dedicated 20 Aug 1847.
Refs: Signed and dated Petrus.Bonanni/fecit.Romae.1847on plinth;   Eileen Kane, 'From Rome to Dublin in 1848:  A Madonna for St Audoens', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 16 (2000),151-156.