Jean-François Montessuy, 1843 – Pope Gregory XVI Visiting the Church of San Benedetto at Subiaco – fine art print

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This masterpiece Pope Gregory XVI Visiting the Church of San Benedetto at Subiaco was made by the painter Jean-François Montessuy. The beyond 170 year-old original creation was painted with the size of 49 1/4 x 55 3/8 in (125,1 x 140,7 cm) and was crafted on the medium oil on canvas. What is more, the piece of art forms part of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s digital art collection, which is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. We are glad to state that the public domain artpiece is being included with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Whitney Collection, Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003. Additionally, the artwork has the creditline: The Whitney Collection, Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003. In addition to this, the alignment is in landscape format and has a ratio of 1.2 : 1, meaning that the length is 20% longer than the width.

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The magnificently frescoed monastery of San Benedetto, about thirty miles east of Rome at Subiaco, was built during the Middle Ages as a pilgrimage site. The presence of the reigning pontiff during a visit of 1834 imparts the gravity of contemporary history to this picturesque costume piece. He is shown emerging from the Sacro Speco, the cave venerated as the one in which Saint Benedict lived as a hermit about A.D. 500. Montessuy sought to establish his reputation with this, his first such masterwork, at the Paris Salon of 1844. There is no more complete expression of the penchant among Lyonnais artists for surface description than this painting.

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