Tag: Camillo Procaccini

01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, December 7, is St Ambrose’s day, With Footnotes – 139

Dec 7, 2018

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Camillo Procaccini (1561–1629) St Ambrose Stopping Theodosius, second half of 16th centuryOil on canvasBasilica of Sant’Ambrogio Theodosius had, in his privileged youth, been military governor of Moesia. But after a charge of cowardice and his father’s execution for conspiracy he had languished in enforced early retirement in Spain. Yet when disaster hit the Roman world at…