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St. Philip Neri With faults. Carved and polychrome wood with eyes in vitreous paste 68 x 30 x 21 cm.

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St. Philip Neri With faults. Carved and polychrome wood with eyes in vitreous paste 68 x 30 x 21 cm.

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Spanish school; XVII century. "San Felipe Neri". Oil on canvas. Relined. It presents faults in the pictorial surface. Measurements: 137 x 103 cm. Devotional painting of St. Philip Neri. It belongs to a period after the beatification and canonization of the Saint, which occurred in the first third of the seventeenth century, so that during the next century was a recurring theme in the Baroque devotional iconography. The dark background enhances the figure of the protagonist. The scene has been conceived from a completely theatrical point of view with the bust of the saint framed in a portico with Solomonic columns on each side. Above it, located in the tympanum, there is a large border with the figure of the Virgin inside, probably in allusion to the miracle of the apparition of Mary to St. Philip. Under this border is the Holy Spirit. St. Philip Neri (Florence, 1515- 1595) known as the "Second Apostle of Rome" after St. Peter, was an Italian Catholic priest noted for founding the Congregation of the Oratory. He was carefully educated and received his first teachings from the friars of St. Mark's, the famous Dominican monastery in Florence. He used to attribute most of his progress to the teachings of two of them, Zenobio de Medici and Servanzio Mini. At the age of 18, in 1533, Philip was sent to the home of his uncle Romolo, a wealthy merchant from San Germano (present-day Cassino), a Neapolitan town near the base of Monte Cassino, to help him in his business dealings and in the hope that he would inherit Romolo's fortune[1]. Philip gained Romolo's trust and affection, but during his stay he also experienced a religious conversion. A

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Andalusian school; circa 1760. "Saint Joaquin". Carved, polychrome and stewed wood. Vitreous paste eyes. It has faults in the carving and the polychromy, in addition to a later period base. Measures: 102 x 52 x 34 cm.

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