Cleveland Museum of Art
Saint Margaret
Antonello GagginiLinkedCulture matchlcp-88331d216de8
- Date
- c. 1520–1530
- Medium
- marble
- Culture
- Italy, Sicily, Palermo, 16th century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 122255
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Gaggini was a member of a large family of sculptors whose Palermo workshop supplied monumental religious sculptures for the cathedrals of Palermo and Messina in Sicily and Montelione in Calabria. After 1507 Antonello himself worked for 15 years to produce marble sculptures for Palermo Cathedral. This figure of the legendary virgin martyr, Saint Margaret, was probably commissioned for one of these ecclesiastical foundations, possibly the chancel of Palermo Cathedral. The saint is shown reading from a book of hours (a sign of her piety) and trampling upon a dragon, the symbol of Satan. The dragon became the attribute by which she is recognized in sacred art.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- Adolph Loewi (Los Angeles, California), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
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