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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Re Gentileschi: According to R. Ward Bissell, in Orazio Gentileschi and the poetic tradition in Caravaggesque painting (Penn State U. Pr. 1981), p.62, "it was beneath the high altar of Somerset Chapel that, according to Soprani, Orazio Gentileschi was buried." He died February 7, 1639. Somerset House belonged to Queen Henrietta Maria, and its altar was dismantled by the Puritans; there is no record to confirm the painter's burial there. The Soprani quoted is Raffaello Sopprani, author of Le vite de'pittori, scoltori et architetti genovesi (Genoa, 1674). Bill Lang, Art Department, The Free Library of Philadelphia