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The Vision of San Francesco of Paola
Maker: Colicci, Giovanni Antonio
Oil on panel, polychrome terracotta and glass in original carved wood frame.
Signed and dated.
Purchased from Andreas Pampoulides, of Coll and Cortes Ltd. With funding from Aldama, the Henry Moore Foundation, the V. & A. Purchase Grant Fund, and The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 53.6 cm
Length: 45 cm
Width: 12 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (2016) by Coll & Cortes Ltd.
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1725
Label text from the exhibition ‘Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500–1800’, on display at The Fitzwilliam Museum from 26 November 2019 until 31 August 2020: The vision of San Francesco of Paola (1416 –1507) This three-dimensional portrait emphasises the simplicity of the founder of the Minims, a monastic order based on the rule of St Francis, committed to humility and non-violence. In addition to the three traditional monastic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, Minims observed a fourth vow of abstinence from meat and other animal-derived food at all times, and so were committed vegans. The fifteenth-century Italian saint Francesco di Paola was known to have had great respect and compassion for all creatures, and legends grew up around his resurrecting of animals that had been killed to be eaten, for example his favourite trout, Antonella, and his pet lamb, Martinello.
Frame composed of wood
on panel
Oil
polychrome
Terracotta
Glass
Accession number: M.2-2016
Primary reference Number: 208432
External ID: CAM_CCF_M_2_2016
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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