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Description: | Corrado Giaquinto worked in Rome in the early eighteenth century. This little painting dates from the 1740s, Giaquinto's most significant decade in the city, when he was admitted to the city's art academy and gained some very important altarpieces. This painting is a sketch, called bozzetto in Italian, related to his celebrated painting in the Church of Giovanni Calibita in Rome. It shows St Gregory the Great, the sixth-century Pope who greatly reformed the Church. He is shown with his attribute, the dove, because the Holy Spirit visited him in this form to inspire him in his thinking. | Subjects: | religion (St Gregory the Great) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Giaquinto, Corrado (Italian painter, 1703-1765) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8854... | Go to resource |
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