Saint Gregory (painting by Michael Willmann)

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Saint Gregory - painting of a Silesian baroque painter, Michael Willmann.

The painting is one of the four works that make up the cycle depicting the Fathers of the Church; the other three are Saint Jerome, Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine. He is one of two unsigned images from the cycle Fathers of the Church. Saint Gregory was one of the fathers and doctors of the Church, reformer of liturgical church singing, in 590 he was elected Pope. Willmann showed him in a pontifical costume, in a cover of damask, tiara, and with a papal pastor in his right hand and with the missal in the left. On the left, a crucifix stands in the mens altar. Over the shoulder, the artist, modeled on the Golden Legend's message, showed a dove symbolizing the divine inspiration that flowed to Gregory during the creation of his writings. On his robes, face and tiara, the rays of light reflect, giving the figure a feeling of motion. provenance

The painting was painted for the Cistercian monastery in Lubiąż. After 1810, he was transferred to the Kunst- und Antikenkabinett der Königlichen Universität zu Breslau, in 1853 to Bildergalerie im Ständehaus in Wrocław, and in 1880 to the collection of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts. In 1942, the painting was moved to the warehouse in Kamieniec Ząbkowicki, from where in 1946 it was taken over by the National Museum in Warsaw. In 1981, the painting was handed over to the National Museum in Wrocław. Bibliography

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