Museum number
A17
Object
Oil Painting: The Death of St Andrew Avellino, Giambettino Cignaroli (1706-1770)
Description
A bearded Priest, in chasuble and alb, lies fainting on the steps of an altar surrounded by classical columns. His shoulders are supported by an angel on the left and his right arm hangs down. He points to a glass phial of blood in the extreme LL corner. A white lily lies across his feet on the steps of the altar.Above him a vision of heaven opens with a child-angel descending carrying the blessed sacrament.On the right a young man in cassock and surplice with a slight aureole kneels with arms gesturing towards the fainting man; his face is upturned towards a child-angel descending on a cloud with the Host on a paten. In the background a second young man in black carrying a shepherd's crook gazes at the fainting man.In a carved and gilded frame.
Materials
Oil
Inscription
TWH lable on reverse: illegible
On display?
Yes

Further description

Simple name
Painting
Subject
Religious
Dimensions
framed: 8cm (d) x 86cm (h)
regular: 65.6cm (h) x 48.5cm (w)
The Death of St Andrew Avellino Giambettino Cignaroli (1706-1770) Oil on canvas, c. 1749 This painting is probably a preliminary study for the altarpiece by Cignaroli in the church of St James in Crema, Lombardy, dated 1749. St Andrew Avellino (1521-1608) was a reforming priest who suffered a fatal stroke at the altar, while celebrating Mass. Here he is depicted collapsing on the altar steps while a vision of an angel opens above him. He is accompanied by Sts Aloysius Gonzaga and Stanlislaus Kostka. A17

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