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Saint Dominic restored, looks on as its sister painting is prepared for the conservation studio.
Seeped in spiritual traditions
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Nelli’s devotional art pays homage to her order’s patron. In 1865, Saint Dominic’s lunette was transferred to what is now the Andrea del Sarto Last Supper Museum. That same year the museum became home to sixteenth-century works from the region's monasteries suppressed in accordance with Napoleonic Laws. Italian Nelli scholar Fausta Navarro describes the painting’s religious significance as follows: "In the lunette depicting Saint Dominic, the Virgin appears to the Founder of the Preaching Brothers’ Order , giving him a string of beads, or to be more precise, a crown and a bunch of roses, hence, 'the rosary'. The Rosary is a devotional practice which is still used today to honor the Virgin Mary. It consists in reciting 150 Hail Marys, divided into 15 series, intercalated with the recitation of other prayers. Its invention was attributed to Saint Dominic and since the thirteenth century, the Dominican Order has promoted the recitation of these prayers, which represent a crown of roses in honor of the Madonna."
Quote from: Orate Pro Pictora, Pray for the Paintress (The Florentine Press, 2009)
Quote from: Orate Pro Pictora, Pray for the Paintress (The Florentine Press, 2009)