Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
St. Camillio de Lellis Saving the Sick of the Hospital of San Spirito from the Floodwaters of the Tiber
Alternate Title:
San Camillo de Lellis salva gli ammalati del S. Spirito durante l'inondazione del Tevere
Image View:
Detail, St. Camillio de Lellis carrying a sick patient through the flood waters
Creator:
Pierre Subleyras (French painter, 1699-1749)
Location:
repository: Museo di Roma (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Palazzo Braschi; Piazza di S. Pantaleo, 10
GPS:
41.8973 12.4729
Date:
1746 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Eighteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
205 cm (height) x 280 cm (width)
Subjects:
saints; Counter-Reformation
Description:
Subleyras arrived at the Académie de France in Rome in the autumn of 1728; he stayed in Italy the rest of his life, thus sealing his fate as a French painter destined to be famous in Italy and practically unknown in France. St. Camillio de Lellis Saving the Sick of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit from the Floodwaters of the Tiber (Rome, Pal. Braschi) pays homage to the devotion of the Camillians. This exceptional canvas highlights the pictorial skill of Subleyras; it is a rigorously constructed but natural composition, in which the careful representation of reality is enhanced by the beauty of the forms and the colors. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-SUBL-MOR-SGG-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

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