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St Francis Receiving the Stigmata
(Orazio Gentileschi)

Measurements
77x60 cm
Provenance

Probably Colonna Family, Rome.

Private collection, Switzerland.

Art Market, London, 1977.

Private collection, England.

Literature

J. S. Gaynor and I. Toesca, ‘San Silvestro in Capite’, vol. LXXIII of Le Chiese di Roma Illustrate, Rome, 1963, p. 86.

A. Moir, The Italian Followers of Caravaggio, Cambridge MA, 1967, I, p.29, and II, p. 77.

B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford, 1979, p. 53.

Ward Bissel, Orazio Gentileschi and the Poetic Tradition in Caravaggesque Painting, University Park and London, 1981, p. 164 (for complete bibliography).

‘L’Imagine de San Francesco nella Controriforma’, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Palazzo Venezia, 1982.

The Matthiesen Gallery, Around 1610: The Onset of the Baroque, London, 1985, pp. 68-69, ill.

Historical Period
Baroque - 1600-1720
Subject
Religious: New Testament
School
Italian - Roman
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