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Francesco de Mura trained in the studio of the great Neapolitan painter Francesco Solimena and was one of the leading fresco painters in Naples from the 1730s. This painting is a highly finished sketch (or modello), which may have been painted to show the patron the appearance of the finished composition or to guide the artist’s assistants in the execution of the initial stages. The commission was to decorate the dome in the church of San Nicola alla Carità in Naples, where De Mura’s fresco survives, but in poor condition. The busy composition, which would have wrapped around the dome of the church, shows Christ accompanied by God the Father and the dove of the Holy Ghost (the Holy Trinity) welcoming Saint Nicholas, among other saints, into Paradise.
Compton Verney
Compton Verney
Title
Saint Nicholas of Bari Received into Paradise
Date
1733–1734
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 139 x W 224 cm
Accession number
CVCSC : 0237.S
Acquisition method
purchased, 1997
Work type
Painting
Compton Verney
Compton Verney, Warwickshire CV35 9HZ England
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