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Saint Gregory the Great 1630

by Jacopo Vignali

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 t...

Size:: 50 1/2 x 41 3/4 in. (128.27 x 106.05 cm)
Medium:: oil on canvas
Credit:: Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum
More:: https://art.thewalters.org/detail/9071/saint-gregory-the-great/

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