Cornacchini, Agostino - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. IV, p. 329

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CORNACCHINI, AGOSTINO. - Sculptor, b. at Pescia in 1685 and d. at Rome shortly after 1740. A pupil of G. B. Foggini, he embraced Baroque in its pictorial and somewhat academic aspect, always retaining, like other Tuscan sculptors, an entirely formal and external view of things: he is one of the representatives of Marattism in sculpture.

He executed a statue of Clemente XI for the cathedral of Urbino; at St Peter’s in the Vatican, the Charlemagne, the holy-water stoups (1725), and the statue of St Elijah (1727); in the cathedral of Orvieto, a Nativity of Mary and the Archangels Michael and Gabriel (1729); a Nativity of Mary and a Deposition at Superga; the statue of Charity in the Corsini chapel at the Lateran; a statue of Clemente XII for Ancona; and finally, among his later works, the busts of Cardinals D’Adda and Omodei in the sacristy of the church of S. Carlo al Corso in Rome.

BIBL.: F. Noack, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, VII, pp. 419-20 (with bibl.); A. Riccoboni, Roma nell'arte, Roma 1942.

Guglielmo Matthiae CORNS OF CONSECRATION. - In Minoan sanctuaries, dwellings, and votive deposits in Crete, objects were found consisting of two horns joined

Article illustration — (from W. Hager, *Die Eherentatum der Päpste, Lignia D.29, fig. 26*)

below by a horizontal bar. They are often depicted in glyptic art or on vases. They do not appear to have been objects of worship, but supported sacred objects or objects used in worship.

BIBL.: M. Nilsson, The Minoan-Mycenean Religion and its survival in Greek Religion, Oxford 1927, pp. 140 ff.; L. Banti, I culti minoici e greci di Haghia Triada (Creta), in Annuario della R. Scuola archeologica di Atene, new series, 3-4 (1941-42), p. 58 ff.