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The Coronation of Saint Rosalia

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323: 149: 254: 219: 215:. One reason why van Dyck was given the commission was that he was himself a member of the Antwerp Fraternity of senior bachelors. He worked for a relatively low fee considering his fame at the time. Another reason why he was chosen was that he various earlier works of the saint. That van Dyck may have met Cascini and the other Palermo Jesuits in 1624–1625 is regarded as another possible reason for the commission. 40: 177:
during a plague in late 1624 and early 1625. The chapel in which it was to hang housed relics of the saint sent to Antwerp by the Jesuits during an earlier plague there in 1626 in the hope of spreading her cult beyond Sicily via major trading cities in the
341:, which instead show the Venetian influence van Dyck had picked up during his time in Italy, a decisive influence on the formation of his style. The brightly-lit colours and the diagonal formed by the Madonna, Child and Saint Rosalia are very similar to 355:. The skull, lily and roses are all typical attributes of Saint Rosalia, with the last two not only shown woven into the crown but also carried in the basket of the figure at the extreme right of the painting (probably quoting 642: 480: 465:
Lo "Sposalizio mistico di S. Rosalia" nella chiesa del S. Salvatore a Vercana. Un problema risolto? Con alcune considerazioni sulla elaborazione dell’iconografia rosaliana di Anton van Dyck (2ª parte)
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and his 1624-1625 paintings of the saint, van Dyck drew heavily on prints after works by Sicilian artists, though mainly for themes and details rather than style or composition. The
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Vitae Sanctae Rosaliae, Virginis Panormitanae e tabulis, situ ac vetustate obsitis e saxis ex antris e rudieribus caeca olim oblivione consepultis et nuper in lucem
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The Jesuits had been particularly active in promoting Saint Rosalia's cult in Sicily and beyond. The Jesuit Giordano Cascini had produced in 1627 the saint's first
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in Antwerp in 1629. The engravings in the publication, of which only one copy survives, were the work of Antwerp engraver
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mantle is unprecedented in earlier Flemish art showing the saint, which had usually shown her alone in a poor
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Art and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp: van Dyck's "Mystic Marriage of the Blessed Hermann-Joseph"
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Van Dyck had started making drawings of the saint for the engravings that were included in the
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Sicilian works are not believed to have influenced the composition or style of the
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Dipinti di Antonio van Dijck e della sua scuola nel Museo Nazionale di Palermo
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Anthony van Dyck, the Cult of Saint Rosalie, and the 1624 Plague in Palermo
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275 cm × 210 cm (108 in × 83 in)
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Vita S.Rosaliae Virginis Panormitanae Pestis patronae iconibus expressa
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acquired them, taking them to Vienna, where they both now hang in the
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Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague 1500–1800
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Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John and Saint Mary Magdalene
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Descrizione e desiderio: i quadri viventi di E. T. A. Hoffmann
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Quaderni della biblioteca del convento francescano di Dongo
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Van Dyck in Sicily 1624-1625 : Painting and the Plague
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The coronation of Saint Rosalia with Saints Peter and Paul
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Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus
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Simiolus. Netherlands quarterly for the history of art
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Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart
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Saint Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral
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Madonna and Child with Saints Rosalia, Peter and Paul
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Index

Coronation of Saint Rosalia

Anthony van Dyck
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna
Anthony van Dyck
The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph
Antwerp
St. Charles Borromeo Church
Maria Theresa of Austria
Kunsthistorisches Museum

Paulus Pontius
Saint Rosalia
Saint Rosalia Interceding for the City of Palermo
Palermo
Spanish Netherlands
Ypres
Gaspar de Crayer
Coronation of Saint Rosalia
Museum of Fine Arts
Paulus Pontius
hagiography

Cornelis Galle the Elder
Philips van Mallery

British Museum
saint Paul
saint Peter

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