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Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fish

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Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fish is a 1580-1585 oil on canvas painting of Anthony of Padua by Paolo Veronese, now in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. Its original location is unknown, though its medium dimensions mean it may have been for the side wall of a chapel or as part of a cycle of paintings for a small 'scuola' in Venice. It probably entered the collection of cardinal Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese as a gift from Francesco Barbaro (patriarch of Aquileia) in 1607..

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Bibliography (in Italian)

  • Guido Piovene and Remigio Marini, L'opera completa del Veronese, Milano, Rizzoli, 1968, p. 125.
  • Camillo Semenzato, Sant'Antonio in settecentocinquant'anni di storia dell'arte, Padova, Banca Antoniana di Padova e Trieste, 1981.
  • Terisio Pignatti and Filippo Pedrocco, Veronese, II, Firenze, Electa, 1995, pp. 480-482.
  • Kristina Herrmann Fiore, La predica di sant'Antonio ai pesci: Paolo Veronese: spunti di riflessione per una rilettura del dipinto restaurato, Roma, Galleria Borghese, 2001.
  • Antonio Rigon, Scritture e immagini nella comunicazione di un prodigio di Antonio di Padova: la predica ai pesci, in Il Santo, nº 47, Padova, Centro Studi Antoniani, 2007, p. 300.
  • Leo Andergassen, L’iconografia di sant'Antonio di Padova dal XIII al XVI secolo in Italia, Padova, Centro Studi Antoniani, 2016.