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Mystical Communion of Blessed Stanislas Kostka

Mystical Communion of Blessed Stanislas Kostka

Artist/Maker (Italian, 1634–1689)
Dateca. 1675–79
MediumBlack chalk
DimensionsImage/Sheet: 18 5/8 × 13 1/16 in. (47.3 × 33.2 cm)
Credit LineFriends of Art Endowment Fund
Object number1974.56
Status
Not on view
More Information
This large drawing is probably a preliminary sketch for a prospective commission for an altarpiece in the church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale in Rome. It depicts an episode in the life of Stanislas Kostka (1550-1568), a young Polish nobleman who became the first Jesuit to be beatified; the young man here receives communion from an angel. Ferri lost the commission to Carlo Maratti, then one of the most sought-after artists in the city.
Exhibition History
Working Drawings
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 24, 1981 - April 27, 1981 )
'Dilectis Dei': Images of the Saints in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 8, 1988 - April 24, 1988 )
Print Council Exhibition: Selections from the Prints and Drawings Collection at the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (May 5, 1988 - June 5, 1988 )
Seventeenth-Century Prints and Drawings from the Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 13, 1988 - November 27, 1988 )
Jesuit Art in North American Collections
  • Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (March 7, 1991 - June 16, 1991 )
None of These Things Is Just Like the Other: Twelve Students Raid the Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (May 13, 1994 - July 17, 1994 )
The Blessed and the Damned: Jesuits and Jews in the Visual Arts
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 14, 1997 - June 1, 1997 )
European Master Drawings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 29, 2002 - June 9, 2003 )
On Line: European Drawings, 16th-19th Centuries
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 18, 2007 - January 27, 2008 )
The Holy Name: Treasures from the Gesù, Bernini and his Age
  • Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT (February 1, 2018 - May 20, 2018 )
Collections
  • European
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