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Source Description
This early work by Fetti was installed in the chapel of the Mainardi family in the church of San Lorenzo in Damaso in Rome. It was painted as a background for an image of the Virgin and Child in an oval frame. At some point, the inset painting was removed, and today there is an 18th-century Virgin and Child in its place. During the 17th century, early religious images were often considered more sacred than contemporary ones, which explains why Fetti was commissioned to paint a monumental work to frame and enhance another picture.For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 312, pp. 439-441.
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Document identity
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26440
label
Flying and Adoring Angels
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obj
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drawing
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Source metadata
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26440
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drawing
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normalized
title
Flying and Adoring Angels
description
This early work by Fetti was installed in the chapel of the Mainardi family in the church of San Lorenzo in Damaso in Rome. It was painted as a background for an image of the Virgin and Child in an oval frame. At some point, the inset painting was removed, and today there is an 18th-century Virgin and Child in its place. During the 17th century, early religious images were often considered more sacred than contemporary ones, which explains why Fetti was commissioned to paint a monumental work to frame and enhance another picture.For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 312, pp. 439-441.
provenance
The Church of San Lorenzo, Damaso, Rome, 1614/1615-ca. 1868, by commission; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 271]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1613-1614 (Baroque)
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en
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Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
174.7
height
103.9
dimensionsRaw
Painted surface H: 68 3/4 x W: 40 7/8 in. (174.7 x 103.9 cm)
Source extras
med
oil on canvas
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5842
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948
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1
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photo
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