print
- Museum number
- 1917,1208.1557
- Description
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Five Saints kneeling and adoring Christ, who appears with angels in the clouds above them; the saints are identified in the dedication below as (left to right) St Francis Borgia (with the monstrance), St Louis Bertrand (whose pistol is being changed into a Crucifix), St Cajetan (with the open book), St Rosa of Lima (holding the Christ Child), and St Philip Benizi (with Crucifix and lily). c.1671
Engraving
- Production date
- 1671 (ca.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 473 millimetres
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Width: 305 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- According to van der Wall, the invention of this composition belongs to Spierre himself; some earlier sources attributed it to Francesco Vanni, a suggestion that was developed more recently by Marco Ciampolini, who tentatively proposed the involvement of Francesco's son Raffaello. The subject provides some clarity here: as four of the saints depicted were only canonised by Clement X on 12 April 1671, and the fifth, Louis Bertrand, raised to sainthood on 20 June 1670, an attribution to Francesco, who died in1610, is implausible, while the involvement of his son, if not impossible, would have had to have taken place in the narrow window between the iconographic terminus post quem and Raffaello's death in 1673.
Lit.: M. Ciampolini, 'Pittori Senesi del Seicento', Siena, 2010, III, p. 1074.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1917
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1917,1208.1557
