Giovanni Pratesi: The Florentine Eye
Giovanni Pratesi: The Florentine Eye
Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata
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March 22, 07:15 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
Lot Details
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Rutilio Manetti
1571 - 1639
Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata
inscribed and dated on the step lower left: SANCTI·D·N·VRBANVS·VIII·16·FEBBRVARII / 1630
oil on canvas
unframed: 99 x 76.2 cm; 39 x 30 in.
framed: 115 x 99.5 cm.; 45¼ x 39⅛ in.
Dated 16 February 1630, this painting is a characteristic example of Rutilio Manetti's mature style. After training with Mannerist painters Francesco Vanni (1563–1610) and Ventura Salimbeni (1568–1613), Manetti turned to dramatic chiaroscuro and intense naturalism from the 1620s onwards, as can be seen in this work.
This painting is a reduced version, probably intended for private devotion, of the altarpiece (still in situ) commissioned in 1630 for the Church of Santa Caterina in Fontebranda in Siena, following Pope Urban VIII recognition of Saint Catherine's stigmata.1 The miraculous 13th-century crucifix depicted in the work can still be admired in the church to this day.2
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