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Cleveland Museum of Art144588portraitFrancisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828)c. 1796–99CC0cma sacred-art portraits flora-fauna night-dreams sacred art flora fauna night dreams saint bishop portrait oil painting religious baroque spain catholic contemplation wisdom writing light shadow figure classical serene ambroseFrancisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828) c. 1796–99 Spain oil on canvas Painting European ReligiousSacred & Devotional Faces in Time The Living World Night, Dreams & Apparitions
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Saint Ambrose by Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828) (c. 1796–99). Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund Rights: CC0. https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.23
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This work belongs to a series depicting Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and Gregory, key figures of early Catholicism. Saint Ambrose (about AD 340–391), the bishop of Milan, resolved important theological conflicts within the church and worked effectively with advocates of Roman paganism. The low viewpoint and large scale suggest that this painting hung high on the wall of a religious institution, but its original location remains unknown. In the late 1700s, Spain expelled all the Jesuits and sparked a transformation of the church. Many of these reformers turned back to early church history for inspiration, and this painting was probably commissioned by one of these new organizations.
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A solemn portrait depicts a bearded bishop, Saint Augustine, seated and absorbed in reading a book against a dark background.
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