Saint Veronica was born in Binasco, near Milan in 1445. She grew up in a poor but devout peasant family. After the Holy Virgin appeared to her, she decided to relive Christ’s passion on a daily basis through penance and flagellation. She later joined the Augustine nuns, where she distinguished herself through her remarkable virtue and her never-drying tears. Veronica died in 1497. This painting was created the year after François-Joseph Navez left Paris to follow his master Jacques-Louis David to Brussels. Both artists respected one another and exchanged artistic ideas. This early work reveals the unmistakable influences of David’s later style, which was characterized by a mix of realism and idealism and increased attention for facial expressions.
| Artist |
François-Joseph Navez
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| Title | Saint Veronica of Binasco |
| Date | 1816 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | year and signature centre bottom, on Veronica's skirt: F.J. NAVEZ. 1816. |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 2003-K |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Nicod (coll.) Brussels 2003 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2003-K |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/5518/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300055874 religious symbolism AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11HH
female saints
Iconclass
11HH(VERONICA OF BINASCO) female saints (VERONICA OF BINASCO) Iconclass 31A235 sitting figure Iconclass 31A252 postures and gestures of arms and hands in relation to each other Iconclass 31A25312 head held in the hand(s), with elbows leaning on an elevation or on the knees Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 41D221(HEADSCARF) head-gear (HEADSCARF) Iconclass 42G2111 father (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 42G2112 mother (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 42G2122 daughter (first degree family relationships) Iconclass |
| School / Style | Neoclassical AAT |
| Les peintres belges à Rome de 1700 à 1830 / Denis Coekelberghs, Philippe Roberts-Jones. - Rome : Institut Historique Belge de Rome, 1976 (p. 251-279) |
| Om en rond het neo-classicisme in België 1770-1830 (tentoonstelling Elsene, Gemeentemuseum, 14.11.1985 - 8.2.1986) / Denis Coekelberghs, Pierre Loze, Alain Jacobs, Antoine Schnapper, Barbara Issaverdens. - Brussel : Société Royale d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, 1985 ; Elsene (Brussel) : Museum van Elsene, 1985 (p. 230-232, cat. 192 (ill. XXII)) |
| François-Joseph Navez (Charleroi 1787-Bruxelles 1869) : La nostalgie de l'Italie / Denis Coekelberghs, Alain Jacobs, Pierre Loze. - Bruxelles : Association du Patrimoine Artistique, 1999 (p. 26-31) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (II, p. 12, 246 (ill.), 247) |
| Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 57 (ill.)) |
| Restoration : The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820 / Thomas E. Crow. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2018 (p. 132-134) |
| Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics / Jonathan P. Ribner. - New York City : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 (p.31) |
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