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Ecstasy of St Margaret of Cortona

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117:. In the painting, she swoons while held up by two angels, while having a vision of a Christ aloft on a cloud, showing her his stigmata. Margaret narrated that in the vision, Christ called her "my beloved daughter." Margaret's waist is girded with the rope cincture that characterizes members of the Franciscan orders. The small dog at her feet is a common feature of her iconography; it recalls the story that her dog found the body of her murdered lover, this event her life triggered her movement towards an eremitic life. The bare background is dark but rises to a luminous gilded light surround the figure of Christ. The baroque arrangement by Lanfranco, places the figures along a diagonal in the canvas and grants a realistic solidity to the characters, focusing the attention on Margaret's psychic state and not only her overpowering miraculous vision. The veneration of Saint Margaret of Cortona was prominent in 29: 299: 133: 149: 243: 124:
The painting was commissioned in 1622 by Nicolo Gerolamo Venuti, whose coat of arms is at the lower left, and decorated at the main altar for the church of
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230 cm × 185 cm (91 in × 73 in)
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The painting depicts a mystical event occurring to the 13th-century
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is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian Baroque painter
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Lanfranco in his design appears to show the influence of
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Giovanni Lanfranco
Pitti Palace
Florence
Giovanni Lanfranco
Pitti Palace
Florence
Franciscan tertiary
Margaret of Cortona
Tuscany
Santa Maria Nuova
Cortona
Ferdinand de' Medici
Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Caravaggio
St Francis in Ecstasy
Ecstasy of St Theresa
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture
Baroque
Cortona Tourism portal
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Giovanni Lanfranco
Nativity
Ecstasy of St Margaret of Cortona
Glory of Sant'Andrea Avellino
Annunciation
Elijah Receiving Bread from the Widow of Zarephath

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