Saint Rosalia Crowned by Angels (Houston) explained

Saint Rosalia Crowned by Angels is a c. 1625 oil on canvas painting by Anthony van Dyck, one of five surviving works showing the saint which he produced whilst he was quarantined in Palermo, Sicily due to a plague.[1] It is now in the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, which bought it in 1968.[2] It was loaned from there in 2011-2012 to the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.[3]

It shows the influence of Pietro Novelli, then also in the city,[4] whilst its composition is very similar to two other 1624 works, one now in the Wellington Collection at Apsley House in London[5] [6] and the other still in Palermo.

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  1. News: Ruth Hazard. Culture24. Saint Rosalia paintings by Sir Anthony van Dyck to be reunited at Dulwich Picture Gallery. 19 December 2011. 28 March 2020.
  2. Book: Salomon, Xavier F. . 2012 . Van Dyck in Sicily 1624-1625 : Painting and the Plague . Milan . Silvana Editoriale Spa . 98–101 . 978-8836621729.
  3. News: Art after death: Van Dyck's Painting and the Plague – in pictures. Guardian. 15 February 2012. 28 March 2020.
  4. Web site: Santa Rosalia Incoronata dagli Angeli. arte.it. it.
  5. Web site: Saint Rosalie Crowned with Roses by Two Angels. ArtUK.
  6. News: Sterling. Charles. Charles Sterling. 'Van Dyck's Paintings of St. Rosalie'. 867652. 74. 431. Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. 1939. 52–55 and 58–63.

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