St. Ignatius Of Loyola In Adoration, Italy 17th century

Painting oil on canvas, sized 149 x 124 cm (149 x 124 cm) unframed and158 x 133 cm (158 x 133 cm) with antique hook depicting St. Ignatiusof Loyola in adoration of the Holy Trinity by Emilian school of the17th century.

Ignatius of Loyola was born in Loyola Castlein 1491 and died in Rome in 1556.

He is educated first in hisparents' castle, then in the house of the " Contador Mayor "of the Catholic Kings in Arevalo (Castile). For several years he serves the viceroy of Navarre. Wounded in the defense of the castle of Pamplona, he spends several months away from arms, during whichtime he reads the Vita Christi and the Flos Sanctorum, which,arousing in him the desire to imitate the feats of the saints, set inmotion his conversion and spiritual adventure.

This began a life as a poor pilgrim that led him to the Holy Land. On his return,he began studies that enabled him to be ordained a priest, along withother companions who shared his choice of life, in 1537 in Venice. With these he founded the Society of Jesus, approved by Paul III (1549) in 1540 with the Bull Regimini.

His works include the Exercises, the result of extraordinary trials and mysticalexperiences, as well as the Constitutions. Also noteworthy are theAutobiography and the Spiritual Diary. The style of this undoubtedly Emilian painting is close to Giacomo Cavedone ( Sassuolo1577 - Bologna 1660 ). A highly personal artist, dominated by thefeeling of the sense of color, its perception and visibility,certainly not  betrayed by estetic sensibility.

A highlypersonal artist, dominated by the feeling of the sense of color, itsperception and visibility, certainly not betrayed by burning ethicalfeelings or aesthetic sensibility.

Writing or talking aboutthe artist's painting is easy: his is a concrete painting with strongand decisive tones that reveals in all its majesty the greatpersonality that the painter manages to convey in his works.
The fundamental motif in the final phase of his artistic career is hiscontinuous search for the religious sense that surrounds him. His works exemplify how Romani is a committed observer to his task: to convey his intense religious feelings and ethos. The work shows ushis style of wide spaces created by the shrewd mastery of blending colors that in his hands become a world, "his world."