St Stanislaus Raising a Dead Man, with St Hyacinth Kneeling before the Trinity Above
About this artwork
This is the only drawing by Malombra that can be firmly connected to one of his paintings. It is a preparatory study for an altarpiece of the same subject for the altar of the Polish Nation in the Basilica of St Anthony (the Santo) in Padua. This was one of Malombra’s most prestigious commissions. The cloaked figure in the foreground is Stanislaus Szczepanowski, Bishop of Cracow and patron saint of Poland. He is shown raising a youth called Piotrawin from the dead. In the background, Piotrawin defends Stanislaus before the Polish king, who had falsely accused Stanislaus of seizing royal lands. The scene of St Hyacinth above is unconnected to the story of Stanislaus, but his presence on the altar is justified as he was a popular Polish missionary who had recently been canonised.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Pietro Malombra (1556 - 1618) Italian
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title:St Stanislaus Raising a Dead Man, with St Hyacinth Kneeling before the Trinity Above
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date created:1607 - 1612
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materials:Pen, brown ink and wash, heightened with white on blue paper
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measurements:38.50 x 20.60 cm
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credit line:David Laing Bequest to the Royal Scottish Academy on loan 1966
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accession number:RSA 221
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Pietro Malombra
Pietro Malombra
Malombra was from Venice and is believed to have been a pupil of the artist Giuseppe Salviati. Both men admired and were influenced by the work of Tintoretto. Malombra was mainly a painter of altarpieces and mythologies, but he was closely involved in the large-scale redecoration of the Palazzo...