French School Of The 17th Century, 121 Cm, The Miracle Of Soriano, Saint Dominic

Period: French School of the 17th
Signed: anonymous
Technique: Oil on canvas - Relined - Good condition
Format: with frame 121 x 101 cm - 110 x 96 cm -
Frame: New gilded wood - Good condition

Subject:
Saint Dominic,
founder of the Dominican Order. It is a classic representation: a tonsured monk, dressed in the black and white habit (Dominican) carrying a lily (Marian devotion) and the Rule of the Order. The painting in the central register represents the apparition of the Virgin of the Rosary to a Dominican from Soriano. Indeed, it is said that in 1530, the Virgin of the Rosary, accompanied by Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Catherine, appeared to a Dominican from Soriano to show him how he should paint the image of Saint Dominic.
The Dominican of Soriano (recognizable by his habit and holding a fleur-de-lis in his left hand and a red-bound book in his right) is in the foreground on the left of the composition. He is looking attentively at the linen painted in the image of Saint Dominic held by Saint Catherine (recognizable by her long hair and the crown that crowns her) and shown by the Virgin dressed in red and blue.
At his side is Saint Mary Magdalene carrying the traditional ointment pot that characterizes her and whose clothes seem to be in contemporary fashion. The lady holding the painting is probably Mary (crowned), the kneeling monk is perhaps Alain de La Roche, Dominican, disciple and brother of Saint Dominic, "inventor" of devotion to the Rosary. There are several representations of this painting, one very similar to ours is in Rivesaltes - Church of Saint Andrew, and in the Church of Saint Matthew in Montpellier. another painted by CASTIGLIONE, Giovanni Benedetto in 1655, 319 x 204 cm is in Santa Maria del Castello, Genoa. While in Spain we find that of the painter Zurbaran in San-Pablo de Sevilla (1626).
Dominic de Guzmán (Domingo Núñez de Guzmán), born around 1170 in Spain in a wealthy environment and died on August 6, 1221 in Bologna, is a Catholic religious, a priest, founder of the order of preaching friars commonly called "Dominicans". Canonized by the Church in 1234, he is famous under the name of Saint Dominic. Devotion to the Rosary was spread by Blessed Alain de la Roche, disciple and brother of Dominic de Guzman. The birth of the Dominican in Sizun is still controversial. After taking the Dominican habit in Dinan in the diocese of Saint-Malo, he went to Paris, then to Flanders, staying in Douai and Lille, then to the southern Netherlands and Germany, particularly in Saxony.
Very attached to Marian devotion, he taught in various Flemish Dominican schools and founded Rosary brotherhoods and developed the devotion of the rosary. He died in Zwolle in Holland in 1475. The Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to him in 1473. He then spent the last years of his life traveling through France, Flanders and Saxony to develop the cult of the Rosary.
The rosary is the name of a Catholic prayer composed of four chaplets of orations. Dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus of Nazareth, it takes its name from the ecclesiastical Latin rosarium which designates the garland of roses with which the representations of the Virgin are crowned.

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