Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Sculptor, of Rome, commissioned circa 1900 to execute a version in high relief of Leonardo's Last Supper for the front of the high altar at Armagh Catholic cathedral. A writer in the Irish Builder of 13 August 1904, deploring the extensive use of foreign craftsmen in the cathedral, demanded: 'Would an Irish sculptor of the first rank have been content to spend two years, as Signor Aureli did, on the figures in front of the high altar, and leave them merely minute copies, as they are, of a fresco of Leonardo da Vinci in Milan?'(1)

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(1) B 87, 6 Aug 1904, 161; IB 46, 13 Aug 1904, 506


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Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (RC)
Date: 1900ca
Nature: Figures on front of high altar, after Leonardo's Last Supper; statue of Sacred Heart on Sacred Heart altar. (Last Supper relief transferred to St Peter's church, Stonebridge, Kilmore, when sanctuary was reordered post Vatican II.)
Refs: B 87, 6 Aug 1904, 161; IB 46, 13 Aug 1904, 506; Guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (1904), 24,29.