The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art May 1970 [antikvár]

GOYA St. Ambrose Goya forever confronts us with a new face. A monumental picture of an ecclesiastic with eyes cast heavenward, sincerely pious in expression, comes as a total surprise. We think of Goya least of all as a formal religious painter, although he decorated altars, church walls, and domes long before and after his appointment as Pintor del Key to the Court of Charles III of Spain in 1786.1 since most of Goya's religious works (many of them frescoes) remained in their original sites, the painting of St. Ambrose (Fig. 1, and colorplate, opposite p. 135),2 formerly in the Contini-Bonacossi collection in Florence and since last year in this Museum, represents one of the rare examples of Goya's religious works which can be studied outside of Spain. Large enough to fit the proportions of a church, sacristy, or episcopal palace (which one and where is not