Copy after the painting St Bernard healing a man by  Fiorenzo di Lorenzo in the Galleria Nazionale, Perugia.

Copy after the painting St Bernard healing a man by Fiorenzo di Lorenzo in the Galleria Nazionale, Perugia.

Eliseo Fattorini

1880

watercolor

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

About this work

This painting shows a group of people gathered in a grand, empty room with tall columns and an archway leading to a distant landscape. The figures are dressed in colorful medieval-style clothes, with one person kneeling in red and another standing in a bright red hat. The walls are decorated with gold and blue patterns, and there’s a Latin inscription at the top. The scene looks like a moment of healing or blessing, with people clustered around the kneeling figure. The artist copied an older painting, but added their own soft, watercolor style. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.

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