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Saint Gennaro Calming Vesuvius
Andrea Vaccaro (Italian, 1604 - 1670)
17th century
- Medium
- Brush and gray, white wash on paper
- Classification
- Figures (representations)
- Dimensions
- 22.3 x 15.9 cm (8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Figure of Saint Gennaro at center, flying over Mount Vesuvius with winged putti around him. The putto above him is holding his robe, the putto to the bottom right is holding a book, and the one to the bottom left is holding his crozier.
