Theodosius repulsed from the church by Saint Ambrose

Magnasco, Alessandro (1667-1749)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1700-1710
Height:
155.3 cm  (61 1/8 in.)
Width:
213.5 cm  (84 1/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1961.43]Clyde M. Carr Fund

Description

Soldiers with folded trumpets.

People as subjects

St. Ambrose (died 397)
Theodosius I, Emperor of Rome (347-395)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Natural trumpet [4419]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 266 pa 85. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1713