Giuseppe Passeri
Italian, 1654-1714
Saint Augustine and Two Angels Adoring the Crucifix
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Giuseppe Passeri
Italian, 1654-17141685/1695
Saint Augustine and Two Angels Adoring the Crucifix
Giuseppe Passeri Italian, 1654-1714 →pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)
Date
1685/1695
Medium
Pen and brown ink, heightened with lead white, over red chalk on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Primary support: 32.7 × 25.6 cm (12 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 38.5 × 29.9 cm (15 3/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
William and Marilyn Simpson Acquisition Fund
One of the most sought-after painters in late 17th-century Rome, Passeri was also a prolific draftsman. The tenderly depicted venerating saint may be identified as Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (340–430), whose miter and crosier are held by two angels, while his numerous writings are represented by the open book at his feet. A sinner turned saint who lived long after the Crucifixion, Augustine could never have knelt at the Cross as this vision suggests.
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