Saint Rosalia Crowned by Angels (Houston)

Saint Rosalia Crowned by Angels (c. 1625) by Anthony van Dyck

Saint Rosalia Crowned by Angels is a c. 1625 oil on canvas painting by Anthony van Dyck, one of five surviving works showing the saint which he produced whilst he was quarantined in Palermo, Sicily due to a plague.[1] It is now in the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, which bought it in 1968.[2] It was loaned from there in 2011-2012 to the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.[3]

It shows the influence of Pietro Novelli, then also in the city,[4] whilst its composition is very similar to two other 1624 works, one now in the Wellington Collection at Apsley House in London[5][6] and the other still in Palermo.

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References

  1. ^ Ruth Hazard (19 December 2011). "Saint Rosalia paintings by Sir Anthony van Dyck to be reunited at Dulwich Picture Gallery". Culture24. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  2. ^ Salomon, Xavier F. (2012). Van Dyck in Sicily 1624-1625 : Painting and the Plague. Milan: Silvana Editoriale Spa. pp. 98–101. ISBN 978-8836621729.
  3. ^ "Art after death: Van Dyck's Painting and the Plague – in pictures". Guardian. 15 February 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Santa Rosalia Incoronata dagli Angeli" (in Italian). arte.it.
  5. ^ "Saint Rosalie Crowned with Roses by Two Angels". ArtUK.
  6. ^ Sterling, Charles (1939). "'Van Dyck's Paintings of St. Rosalie'". Vol. 74, no. 431. Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. pp. 52–55 and 58–63. JSTOR 867652.