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Description: | This painting was identified by A. Schnapper as a preliminary study for one of the pendentives of the dome of Les Invalides, Paris, completed by de la Fosse in 1705. St Paul is commanding his disciple St Luke to accompany him to Rome, to which he points with his left hand (the Castel Sant'Angelo appears at the bottom left). An angel holds the sword by which St Paul was martyred, and another holds a Jewish priest's head-dress in reference to the beginning of St Luke's Gospel. The winged ox is a symbol of St Luke, who is represented painting or sketching - he was popularly believed to have been a painter. | Subjects: | St Luke) religion (St Paul | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Fosse, Charles de la (French painter, 1636-1716) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9050... | Go to resource |
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