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Keywords: Cortona, Pietro da - St Martina calling down Lightning on the Idols - Google Art Project.jpg 1596 1596 1669 1669 Pietro da 545180 Cortona 1596 - 1669 /collection/dulwich-picture-gallery/artwork/st-martina-calling-down-lightning-on-the-idols-cortona-pietro-da/601043/ Cortona Pietro da After /artist/pietro-da-cortona/4130081/ 4130081 /collection/dulwich-picture-gallery/ Dulwich Picture Gallery 363171 http //www dulwichpicturegallery org uk/ 12/28/2011 11 56 09 PM /collection/dulwich-picture-gallery/artwork/st-martina-calling-down-lightning-on-the-idols-cortona-pietro-da/601043/ 1600 17th century Italian Oil Canvas London Noel Desenfans 1802-1807 London Skinner and Dyke Desenfans sale 18 Mar 1802 lot 160 'Cortona-Religion sent to Men' Descriptive Catalogue no 17 'the sky is open and presents a choir of angels and cherubs in the midst of whom Religion in the form of a virgin is just descended on the earth at the very moment when two young women were going to be sacrificed to idols On the right of the picture the incense is already burning at the entrance of their temple when all at once thunder from heaven falls on the idols and the sacrificator himself On the left another priest whose forehead is bound with leaves is seen advancing with the victims led by soldiers but at the report of thunder and the sight of the idols overturned some fall postrate others frightened and surprized disperse whilst Religion with her eyes fixed on heaven is offering up thanks' Handwritten note in copy of catalogue at The Hague RKD '4 1/2 h 3' £37 16 bt in ; London Sir Francis Bourgeois 1807-1811; Bourgeois Bequest 1811; 1813 inv no 147 'The Triumph of Religion ' 1153 601043 False 1669 3/24/2012 7 45 49 AM 226 Painting 1600 1670 w870 x h1153 cm 17th century False 0 755859375 Object st-martina-calling-down-lightning-on-the-idols-cortona-pietro-da St Martina calling down Lightning on the Idols s 870 Bourgeois Sir Peter Francis Bequest 1811 Oil London Noel Desenfans 1802-1807 London Skinner and Dyke Desenfans sale 18 Mar 1802 lot 160 'Cortona-Religion sent to Men' Descriptive Catalogue no 17 'the sky is open and presents a choir of angels and cherubs in the midst of whom Religion in the form of a virgin is just descended on the earth at the very moment when two young women were going to be sacrificed to idols On the right of the picture the incense is already burning at the entrance of their temple when all at once thunder from heaven falls on the idols and the sacrificator himself On the left another priest whose forehead is bound with leaves is seen advancing with the victims led by soldiers but at the report of thunder and the sight of the idols overturned some fall postrate others frightened and surprized disperse whilst Religion with her eyes fixed on heaven is offering up thanks' Handwritten note in copy of catalogue at The Hague RKD '4 1/2 h 3' £37 16 bt in ; London Sir Francis Bourgeois 1807-1811; Bourgeois Bequest 1811; 1813 inv no 147 'The Triumph of Religion ' Canvas Italian special url_id JwHLeIkhOG_g_g PD-old-100-1923 1669 Google Art Project works by Pietro da Cortona Paintings of female saints
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