Saint Bartholomew of Grottaferrata supervising the building of a church; an accident is avoided when a falling column is stayed on the order of one of his disciples. Engraving by P.A. Pozzi after N. Vanni after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
- Domenichino, 1581-1641.
- Date:
- [between 1700 and 1799]
- Reference:
- 493847i
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Description
In the centre, Saint Bartholomew of Grottaferrata uses spectacles to examine a ground plan of the church. Left foreground, a man and a boy smooth a building stone, while another man cuts a stone with a hammer and chisel. A boy with the second man points to the middle distance where a horse or donkey, overloaded with building materials, has collapsed and is being beaten by its master. Right, three men move a stone bas-relief on rollers. Background, various building operations, including raising buckets on a windlass, laying masonry, and raising a column. The rope attached to the top of the column has broken, but the column's fall is stayed by a miracle
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1700 and 1799]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; platemark 45.5 x 71.3 cm
Lettering
S. Bartholomæus ecclesiam B.M.V. edificari jubet, et columna decidens monachi ejus discipuli jussu sistitur. Dominicus Zampieri pinx. N. Vanni del. Petrus Antonius Pozzi sculp.
Bears number: VI
Reference
Wellcome Collection 493847i
Reproduction note
After a fresco by Domenichino in the Abbey of Saint Nilus, Grottaferrata, near Frascati, Lazio, 1609
Type/Technique
Languages
Subjects
- Hoisting machinery
- Windlasses
- Miracles
- Animal welfare
- Architectural drawing
- Masonry cutting tools
- Stonemasonry
- Building sites
- Eyeglasses
- Columns
- BuildingAccidents
- Bartholomew, of Grottaferrata, Saint.
- Cappella dei Santi fondatori (Badia greca di Grottaferrata di Maria Santissima)
- Badia greca di Grottaferrata di Maria Santissima
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Location Status Access Closed stores