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| Keywords: Jacopo Vignali - Saint Gregory the Great - Walters 372530.jpg This painting is from a series depicting famous theologians scholars who studied and wrote about the nature of God for the ceiling of the library in the Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella in Florence St Gregory the Great AD 540-604 was one of the four Latin Church Fathers along with Sts Jerome Augustine and Ambrose As pope he instituted many reforms of the church service An angel holds his papal tiara He is shown here as if seen from below with the dove a symbol of the Holy Spirit suggesting the divine inspiration of his religious writings In the library the image would have provided a model of scholarship and piety for the studious Dominican friars ca 1630 Oil on canvas cm 128 27 106 05 accession number 37 2530 9071 Carlton M Slagle Jr date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Carlton M Slagle Jr in memory of his grandfather Charles W Slagle 1976 Undercover Stories in Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1980 place of origin Florence Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Jacopo Vignali Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Paintings of Gregorius I Magnus | ||||
