Old Master and Early British Paintings

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Lot 17
  • 17

Attributed to Andrea Commodi

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Andrea Commodi
  • A Communion of martyrs, probably depicting Saint Dominic being given permission for the founding of his Order by Pope Innocent III
  • inscribed along the banner: IN HOC.TRIVMPHO.MARTYRIS. DIMITTE NOXAM.SERVVLIS S
  • oil on canvas

Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Dottssa. Francesca Baldassari for tentatively endorsing the attribution to Commodi and for noting the similarities between the present work and La Disputa di Santa Caterina in the church of San Domenico in Cortona (see G. Papi, Andrea Commodi, Florence 1994, pp. 79-80, cat. no. 6, reproduced p. 117, pl. 9). The treatment of the figures in the present painting can also be compared to Commodi's Consecration of the Church of Saint Salvator in the Cathedral of Cortona (op. cit., p. cat. no. 11, reproduced in colour p. 70, pl. VII).