Oil on canvas painting, measuring 149 x 124 cm without frame and 158 x 133 cm with antique hook, depicting Saint Ignatius of Loyola in adoration of the Holy Trinity, from the 17th-century Emilian school.
Ignatius of Loyola was born in the Loyola castle in 1491 and died in Rome in 1556. He was educated first in his parents' castle, then in the house of the "Contador Mayor" of the Catholic Monarchs in Arevalo (Castile). For some years he served the Viceroy of Navarre. Wounded in the defense of the castle of Pamplona, he spent a few months away from arms, during which he read the Vita Christi and the Flos Sanctorum which, arousing in him the desire to imitate the feats of the saints, began his conversion and spiritual adventure.
Thus began a life as a poor pilgrim that led him to the Holy Land. Upon his return, he began studies that allowed him to be ordained a priest, along with other companions who shared his choice of life, in 1537 in Venice. With these, he founded the Society of Jesus, approved by Paul III (1549) in 1540 with the Bull Regimini.
Among his works, we remember the Exercises, the result of extraordinary trials and mystical experiences, as well as the Constitutions. Also, noteworthy are the Autobiography and the Spiritual Diary.
The style of this painting, certainly Emilian, is close to Giacomo Cavedone (Sassuolo 1577 - Bologna 1660).
Very personal artist, dominated by the feeling of the sense of color, its perception and its visibility, certainly not betrayed by burning ethical feelings or aesthetic sensitivity.
Writing or talking about the artist's painting is easy: his is a concrete painting with strong and decisive tones that reveals in all its majesty the great personality that the painter manages to convey in his works.
The fundamental motif in the final phase of his artistic career is the continuous search for the religious sense that surrounds him. His works exemplify how the Romani is a convinced observer to carry out his task: transmitting his sensations and his intense religious ethics.
The work shows us his style made of large spaces created by the astute mastery in amalgamating colors that in his hands become a world, "his world".
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