http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2011/07/michelangelo-painting-found-in-jesuit-residence/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2011/07/michelangelo-painting-found-in-jesuit-residence/comment-page-1/#comment-3205 Brendan Callaghan SJ Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:33:54 +0000 http://www.jesuit.org/blog/?p=3383#comment-3205 One or two points on this story, from Brendan Callaghan, Superior of the Jesuit Community in Oxford and Master of Campion Hall: Campion Hall is a constituent element of the University of Oxford, functioning in the same role as more well-known Colleges such as Balliol, Christ Church, and St John's (the last-named being the College of which St Edmund Campion SJ was a Fellow before his conversion to Catholicism). The Ashmolean Museum - the oldest in the western world - is the University's own Museum. As to the question of who painted the Crucifixion: the jury is out, and will be for some time. Antonio Forcellino is clear that it is by Michelangelo: experts from London's National Gallery are equally clear that it is by Marcello Venusti. Either way, it is beautiful, and will be on display in the Ashmolean from Spring 2012, when it returns from an exhibition in Rome. One or two points on this story, from Brendan Callaghan, Superior of the Jesuit Community in Oxford and Master of Campion Hall:
Campion Hall is a constituent element of the University of Oxford, functioning in the same role as more well-known Colleges such as Balliol, Christ Church, and St John’s (the last-named being the College of which St Edmund Campion SJ was a Fellow before his conversion to Catholicism). The Ashmolean Museum – the oldest in the western world – is the University’s own Museum.
As to the question of who painted the Crucifixion: the jury is out, and will be for some time. Antonio Forcellino is clear that it is by Michelangelo: experts from London’s National Gallery are equally clear that it is by Marcello Venusti. Either way, it is beautiful, and will be on display in the Ashmolean from Spring 2012, when it returns from an exhibition in Rome.

]]> http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2011/07/michelangelo-painting-found-in-jesuit-residence/comment-page-1/#comment-3119 Jesuits at Oxford find painting believed to be by Michelangelo « The Ginger Jar Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:33:56 +0000 http://www.jesuit.org/blog/?p=3383#comment-3119 [...] Purchased at auction by the Campion Hall community in the 1930s, the painting was believed to be the work of Marcello Venusti, one of Michelangelo’s 16th-century contemporaries. But recent tests revealed that the work was indeed created by the Renaissance painter, reports the National Jesuit News. [...] [...] Purchased at auction by the Campion Hall community in the 1930s, the painting was believed to be the work of Marcello Venusti, one of Michelangelo’s 16th-century contemporaries. But recent tests revealed that the work was indeed created by the Renaissance painter, reports the National Jesuit News. [...]

]]> http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2011/07/michelangelo-painting-found-in-jesuit-residence/comment-page-1/#comment-3096 Oxford: a painting by Michelangelo indentified? | Fr. Z's Blog – What Does The Prayer Really Say? Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:05:57 +0000 http://www.jesuit.org/blog/?p=3383#comment-3096 [...] Purchased at auction by the Campion Hall community in the 1930s, the painting was believed to be the work of Marcello Venusti, one of Michelangelo’s 16th-century contemporaries. But recent tests revealed that the work was indeed created by the Renaissance painter, reports  the National Jesuit News. [...] [...] Purchased at auction by the Campion Hall community in the 1930s, the painting was believed to be the work of Marcello Venusti, one of Michelangelo’s 16th-century contemporaries. But recent tests revealed that the work was indeed created by the Renaissance painter, reports  the National Jesuit News. [...]

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