4198B

Saint Ambrose

Artist: Unidentified Novohispanic Artist
Title: Saint Ambrose
Date: 17th century
Medium: Feather mosaic and paper on copper
Location: Museo Antico Tesoro, Santuario della Santa Casa, Loreto, Italia
Photo Source: Santuario della Santa Casa (with permission of the Pontifical Delegation for the Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto. All rights reserved to the Pontifical Delegation for the Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto on the art works under its competence).
Note: There is an engraving of the same subject by Jacques Granthomme (b. 1560?). Yet, the Cool engraving shows the same ornamentation at the base of the crown of the saint as the feather mosaic (a sequence of circles, diamonds, and rectangles). The Granthomme engraving shows instead an ornamentation based on a sequence of dot foursomes and single rectangles.
Item: 4198B