The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (Salviati) explained

Year:1543 - 1547

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas is a 1543 - 1547 painting by Francesco Salviati. It was commissioned for the église Notre-Dame-de-Confort in Lyon by Thomas II de Gadagne (also known as Tomaso Guadagni), a Florentine counselor to Francis I of France. It is now held in the Louvre Museum and measures 275 cm by 234 cm. It is signed FRANCESCO SALVIATO FLO. OPUS (S.B.D.) and the apostle shown in three-quarter-profile is a self-portrait of Salviati.[1]

Its choice of subject reflects an anti-Medici political viewpoint shared by commissioner and artist.[2] The work proved popular from its arrival in Lyon onwards and was copied by several artists in several media, including an engraving by Master CC.[3] Even after art history began to neglect art produced in and for Lyon, the painting was one of few such works still to be mentioned - for example, it appears in Giorgio Vasari's Lives.

References

  1. Notice du Louvre
  2. « Arte civica a Firenze, dal primo popolo all'umanesimo: la tradizione, i modelli perduti », in Expo. Florence, 2013, p. 18-33
  3. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Est. Ed 4b rés. fol.

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