Claude Vignon / St. Ambrose / 1623- 1625

Claude Vignon
St. Ambrose
1623- 1625
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Creator Name: Vignon Claude
Creator Nationality: French
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1593 - 1670
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Claude Vignon
Title: St. Ambrose
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1623
Creation End Date: 1625
Creation Date: 1623- 1625
Object Type: Paintings
Classification Term: Painting
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 73 1/4 x 49 1/2 in. (186.06 x 125.73 cm) (sight)81 1/2 x 59 in. (207.01 x 149.86 cm) (outer frame)
Inscriptions: Signed:ML (spine of book): [Vignon in f 1623 (?) or 5 (?)]Inscribed:Signature and Date
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 68.43
Credit Line: The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.cfm
Context: One of the Four Fathers of the Catholic Church, Saint Ambrose (334?-397 A.D.) was Bishop of Milan, once the administrative center of the western part of the Roman Empire. He is shown with a knotted scourge to signify that he drove the Arian heretics from the Church. This is generally considered the most important painting by this artist in North America.
Exhibition History: - New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "French Painting of the Seventeenth Century in American Collections" (May 26 - August 22, 1982); subsequently, Paris, Grand Palais (January 26 - April 26); Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, (through December 1982).
Exhibition History: - France, 3 venues: Tours, Arras, Toulouse, (November 11, 1993 - March 1, 1994).
Exhibition History: - Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Seventeenth Century French Painting from the Museums of FRAME" (October 11, 2003 - January 5, 2004); subsequently, Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum (January 25, 2004 - April 4, 2004).
AMICA ID: MIA_.68.43
AMICA Library Year: 2003
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