Andrea Sacchi
Saint Anthony of Padua reviving a Dead Man
About this artwork
Saint Anthony was miraculously transported from Padua in northern Italy to Lisbon in Portugal, where his father had been falsely accused of murdering a youth. The saint had the corpse exhumed, revived the young man and commanded him to prove his father’s innocence. This is a reduced replica of an altarpiece painted in 1633-34 for a chapel in the newly built Capuchin church of Santa Maria della Concezione in Rome.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Andrea Sacchi (1599 - 1661) Italian
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title:Saint Anthony of Padua reviving a Dead Man
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date created:About 1635
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materials:Oil on wood
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measurements:110.70 x 76.20 cm; Framed: 132.00 x 98.20 x 7.70 cm
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credit line:Presented by the Trustees of Sir Denis Mahon's Charitable Trust through Art Fund, 2012
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accession number:NG 2854
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
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Andrea Sacchi
Andrea Sacchi
Sacchi was a native Roman, and worked in the city for his entire career, although he travelled to Bologna and Parma in northern Italy and painted altarpieces for churches in Umbria and Marche. He trained first with his father, an artist of modest talents, and then in turn with the highly successful...
