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Source Description
This painting is from a series depicting famous theologians (scholars who studied and wrote about the nature of God) for the ceiling of the library in the Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella in Florence.St. Gregory the Great (AD 540-604) was one of the four Latin Church Fathers (along with Sts. Jerome, Augustine, and Ambrose). As pope, he instituted many reforms of the church service. An angel holds his papal tiara. He is shown here as if seen from below, with the dove, a symbol of the Holy Spirit, suggesting the divine inspiration of his religious writings. In the library, the image would have provided a model of scholarship and piety for the studious Dominican friars.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
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9071
label
Saint Gregory the Great
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obj
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drawing
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
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9071
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Saint Gregory the Great
description
This painting is from a series depicting famous theologians (scholars who studied and wrote about the nature of God) for the ceiling of the library in the Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella in Florence.St. Gregory the Great (AD 540-604) was one of the four Latin Church Fathers (along with Sts. Jerome, Augustine, and Ambrose). As pope, he instituted many reforms of the church service. An angel holds his papal tiara. He is shown here as if seen from below, with the dove, a symbol of the Holy Spirit, suggesting the divine inspiration of his religious writings. In the library, the image would have provided a model of scholarship and piety for the studious Dominican friars.
provenance
Carlton M. Slagle, Jr., [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1976, by gift.
date
ca. 1630
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
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Painting & Drawing
paintings
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
128.3
height
106.1
dimensionsRaw
50 1/2 x 41 3/4 in. (128.27 x 106.05 cm)
Source extras
med
oil on canvas
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5594
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BAR
exhibition_ids
2672
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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3f2ae9d429e5d842