Work representing Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, this beautiful painting of the Venetian school, disappeared from the antique market, was found on a succession of heritage, of the highest pictorial quality as well as of good size, surprises the spectator who appreciates the details and vestiges convinced of its originality.
Oil on canvas - 18th century Venetian school, circa 1750
Contemporary 18th century frame
Measures Height 118 cm X Width 89 cm
Original patina
Elizabeth of Hungary, or of Thuringia: Hungarian princess, Langravia of Thuringia by virtue of her marriage to Ludwig IV, linked to Frederick II of Swabia by distant family ties. Widowed, she entered the Franciscan Third Order, dedicating herself to various works of charity. She was proclaimed a saint by Pope Gregory IX in 1235. Daughter of André II the Gerosolimitan, king of Hungary, Galicia and Lodomira, and his first wife Gertrude of Merania, in 1211, she was betrothed to the firstborn of Landgrave of Thuringia Hermann Moi, to seal the alliance of the two dynasties in the fight against the Emperor Otto IV: she was sent to Wartburg, to the court of Thuringia, where she was educated by her future mother-in-law, Sofia of Bavaria .
Died in 1213 Ermanno, the fiancé, he married in 1221 his younger brother Ludovico IV, known as the Saint, who had inherited the estates of his father in 1217. From their marriage were born three children: Ermanno, Sofia (later wife of Henri II du Brabant) and Gertrude, who became abbess of the Premonstratensian monastery of Altenberg. On September 11, 1227, Ludovico IV died in Otranto, while he was waiting to embark with Frederick II for the Holy Land, where he was to participate in the Sixth Crusade.
The widow, already very active in works of charity, placed herself under the spiritual direction of the theologian Conrad of Marburg: she entered the Franciscan Third Order and retired to the hospital she had built in 1228 in Marburg, where she devoted himself to the care of the sick to death. She was proclaimed a saint in Perugia by Pope Gregory IX on May 27, 1235 (feast of Pentecost): the liturgical memorial of the saint, initially planned for November 19, was moved from 1969 to November 17, her dies natalis. In Hungary and the German-speaking region (Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland and South Tyrol), however, his holiday continues to be celebrated on November 19.
She is the patron saint of bakers and hospitals (according to tradition, she transformed the breads she had hidden for the poor and the sick into roses) and is, along with Saint Louis of the French, principal patroness of the Third Order Regular of Saint Francis and the Secular Franciscan Order "Elisabeth of Hungary". Many communities of Franciscan tertiary women dedicated to the care of the sick in hospitals bear the name of Saint Elizabeth, like the Hungarian Saint. Among the main ones are the Elizabethan Franciscan tertiary nuns, the Elizabethan Franciscan nuns and the Elizabethan Franciscan tertiary nuns.
Biography: Maria Aloisio, Elizabeth of Hungary, Padua, Messenger of Saint Anthony, 1990
* Certificate of free movement issued by the Beaux-Arts of Florence
* Certificate of origin and authenticity with photo, signature and quote.
Sergio Schina
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