Spanish school; 17th century.

Spanish School; XVII century.
"Santo Domingo en Soriano".
Oil on canvas. Relined.
Presents restorations.
It conserves frame of epoch.
Measurements: 84 x 67 cm; 95 x 78 cm (frame).
The work that occupies us deals with the miracle of Saint Dominic in the Dominican convent of Soriano Calabro in Italy. The scene is developed in an interior with the Virgin holding the portrait of the saint, while Santa Catalina (identified with the distaff, the sword and the palm of martyrdom) rises imposing next to her. The Magdalene and a visionary religious, who appears kneeling, close the scene on the left side. The work is inspired by the homonymous canvas by Fray Juan Bautista Maíno, today kept in the Prado Museum, dated around 1629. According to the art gallery itself, "The fame of this representation associated with the name of Maíno spread from a painting, now lost, placed in a chapel of the convent of Santo Tomás in Madrid in May 1629. The Dominicans spread the legend of Soriano presenting as miraculous not only the original image but also its copies. These miraculous powers associated with the cult of Santo Domingo in Soriano explain the immediate diffusion in copies and variants of Maíno's composition (Text extracted from Carlos Varona, M. C. de, in: Juan Bautista Maíno: 1581-1649, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2009, pp. 172-176)."