Saint Matthew and the Angel Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo Italian Saint Matthew is shown writing his gospel, inspired by the angel who is his traditional iconographic symbol. Behind are two scenes from the saints life: on the right he receives hospitality at the court of the Queen of Ethiopia, while the event on the left is less clear. The various sources of light in the painting suggest that this was one of the works that Savoldo painted around 1534 for the house of the head of the Milanese mint, described by the biographer Vasari as "nocturnes, with fires.". Saint Matthew and the Angel. Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo (Italian, Brescia 1480/85-after 1548). Oil on canvas. Paintings
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