The Death of Saint Francis Xavier 1674-79 Ciro Ferri Italian The most celebrated seventeenth-century representation of the death of Saint Francis Xavier (Francisco de Jasso, 1506-1552) is Carlo Maratti's painting commissioned 1674 and completed 1679 on the altar dedicated to that saint in the Chiesa del Gesù, Rome. The architectural and sculptural elements of this altar were designed by Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669), but work on the altar was not begun until three years after his death. Cortona's early involvement with this enterprise makes it possible that his principal assistant, Ciro Ferri, may have hoped to obtain the commission for the painted altarpiece. Though Maratti's composition has a square top and Ferri's a rounded one, they have a number of figural elements in common, especially the pose of the dying saint in the foreground, and it is hard to say if Ferri was influenced by Maratti or vice versa. Ferri's interest in this composition is evidenced in two rapid pen sketches fo

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The Death of Saint Francis Xavier 1674-79 Ciro Ferri Italian The most celebrated seventeenth-century representation of the death of Saint Francis Xavier (Francisco de Jasso, 1506-1552) is Carlo Maratti's painting commissioned 1674 and completed 1679 on the altar dedicated to that saint in the Chiesa del Gesù, Rome. The architectural and sculptural elements of this altar were designed by Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669), but work on the altar was not begun until three years after his death. Cortona's early involvement with this enterprise makes it possible that his principal assistant, Ciro Ferri, may have hoped to obtain the commission for the painted altarpiece. Though Maratti's composition has a square top and Ferri's a rounded one, they have a number of figural elements in common, especially the pose of the dying saint in the foreground, and it is hard to say if Ferri was influenced by Maratti or vice versa. Ferri's interest in this composition is evidenced in two rapid pen sketches fo

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