£8,000 - £12,000
ANDREA CELESTI (VENETIAN 1637-1712): A MONUMENTAL OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS DEPICTING THE VIRGIN AND SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST BEGGING JESUS TO DELIVER LONATO FROM THE PLAGUE
252cm x 96cm
Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby's.
This painting features in the book on Celesti by Isabella Marecci.
The finished painting is in the Council Chamber of the Town Hall, known as the ‘Pala della Peste’ (Plague Altarpiece). Executed in 1693 by the Venetian #painter Andrea Celesti, the figures tell of the end of the Black Death, which had infested Lonato and its entire territory in 1630.
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