Flying and Adoring Angels. Domenico Fetti
This early work by Fetti was installed in the chapel of the Mainardi family in the church of San Lorenzo in Damaso in Rome. It was painted as a background for an image of the Virgin and Child in an oval frame. At some point, the inset painting was removed, and today there is an 18th-century Virgin and Child in its place. During the 17th century, early religious images were often considered more sacred than contemporary ones, which explains why Fetti was commissioned to paint a monumental work to frame and enhance another picture.
between 1613 and 1614 (Baroque)
oil on canvas
Painted surface Height: 174.7 cm (68.8 in). Width: 103.9 cm (40.9 in).
Walters Art Museum
Accession number 37.1027
Place of creation Rome, Italy
Object history
The Church of San Lorenzo, Damaso, Rome, 1614/1615-ca. 1868, by commission
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 271]
1902: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history Going for Baroque. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995-1996.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
References Federico Zeri (1976) (in English) Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, no. 312, pp. 439-441 OCLC: 2463997.
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