The Stoning of Saint Stephen

c. 1602

Aurelio Lomi

Associated Names
Aurelio Lomi

Artist, Italian, 1556 - 1622

This is a painting featuring numerous figures on both earth and in the sky. The earthly landscape shows human activity and various expressions. The sky is filled with celestial and angelic forms swirling around a central bright figure against a luminous sky. The painting has rich detail and contrasts between earthly and divine figures. It follows the style of Giorgio Vasari, exhibiting Mannerist aesthetics of elongated figures and dynamic compositions.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and ink with oil over chalk on four sheets of paper

  • Credit Line

    New Century Fund and The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 94.5 × 78 cm (37 3/16 × 30 11/16 in.)
    framed: 106.5 × 86.5 × 5.5 cm (41 15/16 × 34 1/16 × 2 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2020.101.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection, Genoa, until c. 1980s(?). Aldo Zerbone, Genoa, until c. 2010. (exhibited with Charles Beddington). (exhibited with Rob Smeets Old Master Paintings, Maastricht). (Giacometti Old Master Paintings, Rome); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2020

  • A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020, fig. 3 (shown only in Washington, Washington venue canceled).

Bibliography

2017

  • Bolzoni, Marco Simone. "Arelio Lomi's Unknown Modello for the Circumcision of Christ in Pisa Cathedral" Master Drawings 55 (2017): 459 and fig. 8.

2020

  • Bober, Jonathan. A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750,Exh cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington: 69, fig. 3.

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