Saint Hyacinth, Saint Vincent Ferrer and Saint Luis Beltrán. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G.B. Piazzetta.

  • Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista, 1682-1754.
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[between 1760 and 1769?]
Reference:
10892i
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Saint Hyacinth, Saint Vincent Ferrer and Saint Luis Beltrán. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G.B. Piazzetta. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Identified in the lettering as Saint Isidore (of Chios?), Saint Vincent Ferrer and Saint Hyacinth. The man seated on the right is identified in the lettering as Saint Hyacinth. According to Mariuz, loc. cit., he is Saint Luis Beltrán: he wears the Dominican black cloak over a white habit, and holds a chalice with snakes, which refers to the attempted poisoning of Luis by the Caribs to whom he was sent as a missionary. The man in the centre is identified both in the lettering and by Mariuz as Saint Vincent Ferrer: he wears the white habit of the Dominicans without the black cappa or overcoat, and his attribute is a flame above his head. The standing man on the left is identified in the lettering as Saint Isidore, but neither Saint Isidore of Chios nor Saint Isidore of Seville was a Dominican: they both predate the Dominican order. He is identified by Mariuz as Saint Hyacinth, a Dominican friar sent from Rome as a missionary to his native Poland (Silesia). He is holding the Host and a statue of the Virgin and Child which he had rescued from a Mongol attack on Kiev in 1240. He is wearing a Dominican overgarmentt

Publication/Creation

Vena. [Venezia, Venice] : App.o Wagner C.P.E.S, [between 1760 and 1769?]

Physical description

1 print : etching

Lettering

S. Isidorus. S. Vincentius. S. Hyacinthus.

References note

Adriano Mariuz, L'opera completa del Piazzetta, Milan 1982, no. 65, pp. 90-91 and tav. XXVII

Reference

Wellcome Collection 10892i

Reproduction note

After an altarpiece painted by Piazzetta in 1737-1738 for the church of Santa Maria del Rosario dei Gesuati. The painting is in the opposite direction to the present etching (Mariuz, loc. cit.)

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