Lot 256
LARGE ITALIAN ARCHITECTURAL GILTWOOD SOLAR RELIQUARY PANEL
18TH CENTURY
Auction: 5 September 2018 at 11:00 BST
Description
with wavy and straight giltwood rays emanating from a central hinged spheroid compartment
Dimensions
222cm high, 143cm wide
Footnote
Provenance:
Chiesa di Sant'Ansano (Church of St. Anthony), Spoleto, Umbria
Ex Yester House, Gifford, East Lothian
Note: The church of Sant'Ansano was built in the late 1700s by the Milanese architect Antonio Dotti. Inside are housed a fresco depicting the Madonna and Child and two Saints by Giovanni di Pietro, and the altarpiece depicts the Martyrdom of St Ansano by Archita Ricci.
The cult of St. Anthony was very much felt in Spoleto, both because he had been a guest at the Franciscan hermitage on Monteluco, and as the solemn rite of his canonisation was carried out at the Cathedral of Spoleto by Pope Gregory IX on May 30, 1232.