The Martyrdom of the Blessed Signoretto Alliata

ca. 1794-1796 (Baroque)

50.6 cm 50.6 cm

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Signoretto Alliata (1269‒1340s) was a nobleman of Pisa who lived in Sicily where he volunteered in its hospitals. Later in life he became a hermit, living in seclusion on an isolated stretch on the shore. According to legend, he was murdered by a band of Muslim North African p...

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Galleria des Monte di Pietà, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 1602]; Cassa dei Depositi e Prestiti, Rome [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Cassa dei Depositi e Prestiti Sale, Rome, November 30, 1875, no. 65 [as Cades]; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquistion unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 431, as a study of a painting in Venice representing St. Luke by Tiepolo]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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