St. Paul Preaching to the Athenians

ca. 1620-1624 (Baroque)

24 cm 18.9 cm

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These scenes from earliest Christian history are set amid fantasy architecture, mysteriously lit under dark skies. The small scale of the figures makes the buildings seem enormous. De Nomé has imagined ancient streetscapes of Athens and Jerusalem as lined with sculpture and ri...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 864, as Flemish, about 1550]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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