Madonna & Child With St. Gregory

Madonna & Child With St. Gregory - Mary Magdalene

Oil On Canvas

By: Orazio Gentileschi (1563 - 1639) Italian Painter, Mannerism (Late Renaissance) - Painting School: Caravaggisti.

Ripatransone, Cathedral

This altarpiece is devided, by the cloud into two sections.

On the cloud there is the Madonna with the infant Jesus, who is going toward an angel. Around them there are angels, on the right of the Madonna there is a nacked angel with colored wings.
On the left of the Madonna, there is a young boy with a white shirt, who is praying.
This scene is contemplated by St Gregory the patron of this cathedral and Mary Magdalene the patron of the City Of Ripatransone, being a diocese from the year 1571.

The devotion to Christ is painted on the face of Mary Magdalene, she is looking at Christ, praying intensely, she will be the only witness of his resurrection, it is known as Noli Me Tangere.
On the left there is St. Gregory, dressed in papal robes and the dove his main symbol.
St Gregory is looking at the Madonna, inviting her with his hand to offer a grace to the citizens of Ripatransone.

The wooden altarpiece is made by M. Angelo Ripano (XVII), erected by Brandimarte Tommasi (his emblem is in the bases of the two columns)

Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (1563–1639) was an Italian painter. Born in Tuscany, he began his career in Rome, painting in a Mannerist style, much of his work consisting of painting the figures within the decorative schemes of other artists. After 1600, he came under the influence of the more naturalistic style of Caravaggio. He received important commissions in Fabriano and Genoa before moving to Paris to the court of Marie de Medici. He spent the last part of his life at the court of Charles I of England. He was the father of the painter Artemisia Gentileschi.

He was born in Tuscany, the son of a Florentine goldsmith called Giovanni Battista Lomi, and baptised at Pisa on 9 July 1563. He later took the name Gentileschi from an uncle with whom he lived after moving to Rome in either 1576 or 1578.

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