The Vision of Saint William of Aquitaine late 1650s Giovanni Angelo Canini Italian This monumental and spirited composition sketch of stark chiaroscuro contrasts portrays the kneeling, praying figure of William, Duke of Aquitaine, at lower right before a rocky landscape, as the saint is about to be led by one of the angels to the desolate valley of the Gellone, where he would found the Benedictine monastery of Saint Guilhem-du-Desert (some of which stone-remains are today in the Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art). The drawing shows the elements of the story of Saint William as told in the twelfth-century biography, the Vita Sancti Wilhelmi.The sheet may be dated in the late 1650s, based on comparison to the composition of Christ's Charge to Peter’ (San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Rome), dated 1659, and based on the more significant evidence of its distinctive drawing technique. The brush drawing technique with brown wash and strong thick white highlights is exactly that of a shee

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The Vision of Saint William of Aquitaine late 1650s Giovanni Angelo Canini Italian This monumental and spirited composition sketch of stark chiaroscuro contrasts portrays the kneeling, praying figure of William, Duke of Aquitaine, at lower right before a rocky landscape, as the saint is about to be led by one of the angels to the desolate valley of the Gellone, where he would found the Benedictine monastery of Saint Guilhem-du-Desert (some of which stone-remains are today in the Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art). The drawing shows the elements of the story of Saint William as told in the twelfth-century biography, the Vita Sancti Wilhelmi.The sheet may be dated in the late 1650s, based on comparison to the composition of Christ's Charge to Peter’ (San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Rome), dated 1659, and based on the more significant evidence of its distinctive drawing technique. The brush drawing technique with brown wash and strong thick white highlights is exactly that of a shee

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