An oil on canvas by the Italian painter Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo, painted between about 1508 and 1548, showing Matthew the Evangelist at his writing with the angel that traditionally accompanies him in Christian art. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 12.14, Marquand Fund, 1912.
Facts
Subject Matter
Devotional FunctionThe biographer Giorgio Vasari records that Savoldo painted a group of nocturnal genre scenes around 1534, night pieces with fires, that this panel is generally counted among; pictures of this kind were made as small cabinet paintings for private connoisseurs to admire the artist's handling of candlelight and firelight against deep shadow, rather than as altarpieces intended for public devotion. 1 Physical Form
MediumOil on canvas, Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo, Italy, circa 1508 to 1548, Metropolitan Museum of Art 12.14 1 Medium (class) Connections
Belongs to Tradition
Source Saint Matthew and the Angel, accession 12.14 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Depicts
The painting's directly named subject per the museum's own title, shown with the angel his own Gospel-writing tradition assigns him, matching the corroborating Wikipedia record's account of that same attribute.
Source Saint Matthew and the Angel, accession 12.14 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Additional Source Matthew the Apostle (Wikipedia)
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Also in Arts and Music Atlas: the author of this subject.
Sources
1. Saint Matthew and the Angel, accession 12.14 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of Artcatalogue record, medium/object-type descriptionQuote, catalogue record, medium/object-type description
An oil on canvas by the Italian painter Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo, painted between about 1508 and 1548, showing Matthew the Evangelist at his writing with the angel that traditionally accompanies him in Christian art.
Matthew the Apostle (Wikipedia)
WikipediaDepicts: MatthewQuote, Depicts: Matthew
Matthew is often depicted in Christian art with one of the four living creatures of Revelation 4:7. The one that accompanies him is in the form of a winged man.
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