Study for "An Apotheosis of a Saint" (for San Bernardino dei Morti, Milan) (c. 1695): Art, History and Details

Study for "An Apotheosis of a Saint" (for San Bernardino dei Morti, Milan) (c. 1695) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Sebastiano Ricci (Italian, 1659–1734).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This sketch represents an apotheosis, or a rise to heaven, of a saint. However, the precise identity of the figure remains unknown, since documents describing the commission have not yet been discovered, and the military costume does not sufficiently distinguish him.

Object facts

• Title: Study for "An Apotheosis of a Saint" (for San Bernardino dei Morti, Milan)
• Date: c. 1695
• Creator attribution: Sebastiano Ricci (Italian, 1659–1734)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 96.5 x 81.9 x 6.4 cm (38 x 32 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 78.5 x 62.8 cm (30 7/8 x 24 3/4 in.)
• Collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1980.39

Collection credit

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Daniels, Jeffery. "Sebastiano Ricci in Milan." The Burlington Magazine 114, no. 829 (1972): 229-233.
• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163–219.

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