Christ and the Canaanite Woman is a c. 1650 oil on canvas painting by Mattia Preti. [1] It and another work by Preti showing Christ with a single woman ( Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery ) were both recorded as being in the Certosa di San Martino in Naples in 1806, but were split up the following year when Adultery was acquired by the Real Museo Borbonico and Canaanite passed to the church of Sant'Efremo Nuovo. [2] In 1828 the two works and 38 others were given to the Museo della Regia Università degli Studi in Palermo, Sicily by Francis I of the Two Sicilies and they both now hang in the Palazzo Abatellis in the same city. [2]
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John Thomas Spike is an American art historian, curator, and author, specializing in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods. He is also a contemporary art critic and past director of the Florence Biennale.
Mattia Preti was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Saint John.
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery is an incident from the New Testament.
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Judith and Holofernes is an oil on canvas painting by Italian artist Mattia Preti, datable to around 1653–1656. It is held at the Museo di Capodimonte, in Naples.
Saint John the Baptist is a c.1653-1656 oil on canvas painting by Mattia Preti, now in the Museo nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples.
Saint Nicholas is a c. 1653 painting by Mattia Preti, the first work he produced after moving to Naples and showing the three gold balls which are a traditional attribute of the saint. It is now in the Museo nazionale di Capodimonte in the same city. He also produced a larger version of the work in 1657 which is now in the Pinacoteca civica in Fano, with an early copy after the Capodimonte version now in the church of Santa Teresa degli Scalzi in Naples.
The Banquet of Absalom is an oil on canvas painting by Mattia Preti, created in c. 1660–1665, now in the Museo nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples. It illustrates a passage from chapters 13 and 14 of 2 Samuel in the Old Testament, in which King David's son Absalom avenges the rape of Absalom's sister Tamar two years earlier by inviting her rapist Amnon to a feast, getting him drunk and then killing him.
Belshazzar's Feast is a circa 1660-1665 oil on canvas painting by Mattia Preti, now in the Museo nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples. It shows a scene from chapter 5 of the Book of Daniel.
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery is a c. 1650 oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Baroque artist Mattia Preti.
Christ and the Canaanite Woman may refer to one of two paintings of the exorcism of the Syrophoenician woman's daughter:
The Four Evangelists is a c. 1656-1660 oil on canvas painting by Mattia Preti. It was one of forty paintings given to the Museo della Regia Università degli Studi in Palermo by Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and now hangs in that city's Palazzo Abatellis.
The Return of the Prodigal Son is a 1656 oil on canvas painting by Mattia Preti, now in the Museo nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples.
The Return of the Prodigal Son is a c. 1658 oil on canvas painting by Mattia Preti, now in the Royal Palace of Naples.