# St Andrea Avellino

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## Artwork

- Artist: [LANFRANCO, Giovanni](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lanfranco-giovanni-r02ff07ea6c2bff>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 420 x 320 cm

## Commentary

In Lanfranco&#39;s altarpiece, which stands more than four metres high in the right transept of Sant&#39;Andrea della Valle in Rome, St Andrea Avellino gazes up, wearing an inward-looking expression. The heavens open and a host of angels descend from the skies as the wide-eyed altar-boy standing behind the saint stares up. The large angel at the upper left spreads his arms and looks down at Avellino.

## Related artworks

- [Angelica and Medoro](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lanfranco-giovanni-r02ff07ea6c2bff/angelica-and-medoro-rcaf422c1099db9>)
- [Christ Ascending](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lanfranco-giovanni-r02ff07ea6c2bff/christ-ascending-r53d3ad90a60210>)
- [Christ Served by Angels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lanfranco-giovanni-r02ff07ea6c2bff/christ-served-by-angels-rc62b39962a995a>)
- [Coronation of the Virgin with St Augustine and St William of Aquitaine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lanfranco-giovanni-r02ff07ea6c2bff/coronation-of-the-virgin-with-st-augustine-and-st-william-of-aquitaine-r38665650e9c3bb>)
- [Crossing cupola paintings](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lanfranco-giovanni-r02ff07ea6c2bff/crossing-cupola-paintings-r7bc6c98ede5d47>)
- [Crucifixion \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lanfranco-giovanni-r02ff07ea6c2bff/crucifixion-detail-r6f60b41c651210>)
- [Crucifixion](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lanfranco-giovanni-r02ff07ea6c2bff/crucifixion-rba5dde2699f985>)
- [Cupola vault \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lanfranco-giovanni-r02ff07ea6c2bff/cupola-vault-detail-rd5d7cc83dbdacb>)
- [Cupola vault](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lanfranco-giovanni-r02ff07ea6c2bff/cupola-vault-rc3c721e12b8b0c>)
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- [Hagar in the Wilderness](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lanfranco-giovanni-r02ff07ea6c2bff/hagar-in-the-wilderness-r6c696010d411ad>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)