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Saint Margaret

Saint Margaret

c. 1520–1530
(Italian, 1478–1536)
Italy, Sicily, Palermo, 16th century
marble
Overall: 139.7 x 54.6 x 18.2 cm (55 x 21 1/2 x 7 3/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1942.564
Location: not on view

Description

Gaggini was a member of a large family of sculptors whose Palermo workshop supplied monumental religious sculptures for the cathedrals of Palermo and Messina in Sicily and Montelione in Calabria. After 1507 Antonello himself worked for 15 years to produce marble sculptures for Palermo Cathedral. This figure of the legendary virgin martyr, Saint Margaret, was probably commissioned for one of these ecclesiastical foundations, possibly the chancel of Palermo Cathedral. The saint is shown reading from a book of hours (a sign of her piety) and trampling upon a dragon, the symbol of Satan. The dragon became the attribute by which she is recognized in sacred art.
  • Adolph Loewi (Los Angeles, California), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 206 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 95 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 95 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 110 archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 38 no. 02, February Mentioned & reproduced: p. 2 archive.org
    Nova, Alessandro and Vitale Zanchettin. Michelangelo: Arte, Materia, Lavoro. Venezia: Marsilio, 2019. Reproduced; p. 27, fig. 8
    Campbell, Stephen J. The Endless Periphery: Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto's Italy. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019, 87-88. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 87-88, fig. 3.28
  • Object in Focus: Saint Margaret. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 10-March 16, 1998).
    Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 10 - March 16, 1998. "Object in Focus: Saint Margaret."
    Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30-November 13, 1949).
  • {{cite web|title=Saint Margaret|url=false|author=Antonello Gaggini|year=c. 1520–1530|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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