Attributed to
Jusepe Leonardo
, Spanish, 1601-c.1652
Title
The Miracle of Saint Dominic at SorianoDate1630/1645
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
203 x 152 cm
Credit LinePurchased, 1886
Object numberNGI.369
Label TextAccording to legend, three beautiful women appeared to Fra Lorenzo di Grotteria in the Dominican church at Soriano in Italy in 1530. They presented to him a portrait of Saint Dominic. Later, a revelation to another friar identified them as the Virgin, Saint Catherine and Mary Magdalen, all of whom were protectresses of the Dominican Order. The subject became popular in the Dominican churches of seventeenth-century Spain. Jusepe Leonardo was a Spanish painter who worked on a number of major commissions for King Philips IV, among them the Royal Alcazar of Madrid.