Author: Giambattista Lambranzi
Dating: 1670-1671
Century: 17th century
Technique: Oil on canvas
Location: Central nave, ninth left arch (in the plan No. 18)
The event depicted in the painting is one of the most famous in the life of St. Angelo, one of the early members of the Carmelite order, who was sent around 1219 to seek the approval of the rule from Pope Honorius III.
He is depicted in the upper left corner preaching from the pulpit of the Church of St. John Lateran. In the foreground on the left, engaged in conversation with the Carmelite saint, are St. Francis and St. Dominic, the founders of the other two mendicant orders. On the right, two women with their children stand before the figure of an old bearded man with his bare chest exposed, lifting his face towards the Saint of Sicily. A strong colonnaded pillar creates a background, leaving space for two large arches expressed perspectively with altars in the distance.
Lambranzi was a Venetian artist who rarely left his hometown and worked in painting, and possibly in preparatory drawings for engravings, until 1706, the probable year of his death.
