ELDERLY KING DAVID

AUTHOR: Andrea Meldolla known as Schiavone

CENTURY: XVI°

CHURCH: Church of San Giacomo dall’Orio

POSITION: opposite of the façade – left of the portal (on map n°1)

METHOD: oil painting on panel

The painting by Andrea Schiavone, and its complementary piece  King David mirror eachother at the entrance door.

These two large paintings with golden backgrounds were  probably realised along with the other works by Schiavone and placed in the choir for decoration, historically dated in the fourth decade of the sixteenth-century.