Madonna and Child with Saints
Sacra Conversazione, by Giovanni Girolamo (da Brescia) Savoldo
Madonna mit Kind und Heiligen, which means Madonna and Child with Saints
The panel on which the saint was painted was cut at the top and bottom, as has already been said, so that today it is visible even to the dogs. For this reason, previous researchers believed that it was a painting that was located on the upper floor of the polyptych. The current dimensions of this painting are 53.4 x 42.5 cm. The width of that fragment corresponds to the width of the other two preserved paintings in which St. Michael and St. Juraj. Furthermore, in previous literature the painted saint was considered to represent the figure of Saint Peter. Clara. A total of four representations of that saint painted by Girolamo da Santa Croce have been preserved on the eastern coast of the Adriatic.20 In his paintings of Saint Peter Clare always wears a black veil on her head (this is how her son Francesco also painted her). The saint represented in a fragment of the Lopud triptych has a long white veil and among her attributes are a cross and a book. The counterpart of that saint in the catalog of the Santa Croce workshop was not known until recently. In the pages of the Russian auction house Citadel 51 Art & Antiques, Dr. sc. Peter Wolf and Ph.D. Everett Fahy correctly attributed it to Girolamo da Santa Croce. In the image, among other figures, two Franciscan saints are represented. On the left is Saint Clare (and in this painted example she has a black veil on her head), while the identification of the saint on the right has not been established. This saint, like that of Lopud, He wears a gray Franciscan habit and a white veil, and in his hands he holds a cross and a book.
After numerous consultations with distinguished colleagues, I cautiously put forward the hypothesis that the saint depicted in the Lopud polyptych fragment is definitely a third-rate woman and that she probably represents Blessed Angela of Foligno or Saint Mary of Foligno. Margaret of Korton. That is, the sisters of the second order of St. Franciscans after taking vows wore a black veil, while the novices of that order or the third order women (after taking vows) wore white. Therefore, we can discard the representation of a Franciscan novice and look for "our" saint among the venerable women of that time. Both third-order Franciscans, Blessed Angela of Foligno, a great mystic of the Church, and St. Margaret of Korton, enjoyed a strong cult since the Middle Ages, although she was not formally canonized until the 17th and 18th centuries. In support of this hypothesis, we present the image of Blessed Angela de Folig, which is located in the Venetian Franciscan church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. It dates from 1468 and is on the famous Cozzi wood bark.
This image is a public domain image, which means either that copyright has expired in the image or the copyright holder has waived their copyright. Franciscan Gallery charges for the access to high resolution copy of the image. Manually restoration was necessary in order to improve quality, without covering the original image.
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