Maria Raggi

Maria Raggi di Scio
Memorial to Maria Raggi by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome (1647)
Born1552 (1552)
Chios, Greece
Died1600 (aged 47–48)
Rome
MonumentsMemorial to Maria Raggi

Maria Raggi di Scio (1552–1600) was a Catholic nun from the island of Chios. In 1647 Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini depicted her in a sculpture which resides on a nave of Santa Maria sopra Minerva church in Rome.[1]

  1. ^ Avery, Charles (1997). Bernini: Genius of the Baroque. Little, Brown and Company. p. 141. ISBN 9780821224656.