CRESPI, Giuseppe Maria
(b. 1665, Bologna, d. 1747, Bologna)

Cardinal Prospero Lambertini

1740
Oil on canvas, 80 x 58 cm
Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna

Prospero Lambertini (1675-1758), was pope from 1740 to 1758 as Benedict XIV. He became cardinal in 1728, and archbishop of Bologna between 1731 and 1740.