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Saint Thomas Aquinas. Oil painting. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Saint Thomas Aquinas. Oil painting.
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Description
Left, Saint Thomas Aquinas, seated and writing a folio volume on a desk or diagonal board. Right, a crucfix and, behind, an open book lying on top of two closed books, one of which is inscribed on the spine "Super IV. Sententiarum", i.e. Saint Thomas's commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences (Scripta super IV libros sententiarum), written ca. 1256
Physical description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 101 x 81 cm
Related material
Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/6/58
Lettering
Bene scripsisti de me Thoma
Lettering in reverse as spoken by Christ on the cross to St Thomas
Reference
Wellcome Collection 44766i
Creator/production credits
Attributed to Andrea Sacchi when in the possession of the previous owner. Apparently painted by an Italian hand, possibly in the 17th or 18th century
Type/Technique
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesNote