● On view now — 201 Neoclassical Painting & Sculpture
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · verified August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
This work belongs to a series depicting Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and Gregory, key figures of early Catholicism. Saint Ambrose (about AD 340–391), the bishop of Milan, resolved important theological conflicts within the church and worked effectively with advocates of Roman paganism. The low viewpoint and large scale suggest that this painting hung high on the wall of a religious institution, but its original location remains unknown. In the late 1700s, Spain expelled all the Jesuits and sparked a transformation of the church. Many of these reformers turned back to early church history for inspiration, and this painting was probably commissioned by one of these new organizations.
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Gaetano Gandolfi — Head of a Bishop
Abraham Bosse|Pierre Mariette|Gilles Rousselet|Claude Vignon
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) — Saint Jerome as Schola
Bernardo Strozzi — St. Gerardo Sagredo, Bishop of Csanád
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) — Bishop Sai
Artemisia Gentileschi — A Woman presenting her Child to Sain
Antonello da Messina — Saint Augustine
Laurent de La Hyre|Herman Weyen|Nicolas Pitau — St. Augustin
Francesco Rosaspina|Guido Reni|Francesco Rosaspina — Saint A
Pope Julius III (formerly entitled Pope Paul III)
Giulio Bonasone — Portrait of Pope Marcellus II, right hand 
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) — The Tears of Sain
