Santa Justina con el unicornio, venerada por un donante

Moretto da Brescia · PD

Santa Justina con el unicornio, venerada por un donante


Ficha

Año
1530
Técnica
óleo
Tipo
pintura
Dimensiones
200 × 139 cm

La historia

For almost two centuries this panel hung under the wrong name. When it first turns up in a 1662 Habsburg inventory, on its way from the Hofburg to Ambras Castle, it is listed as a Titian. A later inventory reassigned it to Pordenone, and only in 1845 did a restorer give it back to its real author, Moretto of Brescia, who painted it around 1530. Saint Justina stands calm in gold and white, the patron saint of nearby Padua, a small white unicorn resting at her side as the old sign of her virginity. At her feet a donor kneels in profile, gazing up, the man who paid for the picture, though no document survives to tell us his name.

Santa Justina con el unicornio, venerada por un donante — Moretto da Brescia — MuseScope