{"id":2878,"date":"2020-06-04T15:38:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T15:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/collezioni\/saint-margaret-of-antioch\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:22:27","slug":"saint-margaret-of-antioch","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/collections\/saint-margaret-of-antioch\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Margaret of Antioch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"gutenslider-b9ylx76yq\" class=\"wp-block-eedee-block-gutenslider gs-frontend content-change alignnone adaptive-height arrow-style-1 arrow-position-sides arrow-mb-none arrows-lg arrows-md arrows-sm dot-style-1 dots-lg dots-md dots-sm dot-position-bottom is-position-center-center mb-none lg-zoom-icon wrap-auto-height\" data-parallax-direction=\"down\" data-parallax-amount=\"1.3\" data-lg-transition=\"lg-slide\" data-hash=\"\" ><div class=\"eedee-swiper-outer\" style=\"--gutenslider-min-height: 50vh;--gutenslider-arrow-size: 30px;--gutenslider-dot-size: 25px;--gutenslider-arrow-color: #ffffff;--gutenslider-dot-color: #ffffff;--gutenslider-padding-y-mobile: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-mobile: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-tablet: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-tablet: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-desktop: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-desktop: 40px;--gutenslider-bg-image: url();--gutenslider-min-height-md: 50vh;--gutenslider-min-height-sm: 50vh;--gutenslider-padding-x: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-md: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-sm: 20px;--gutenslider-padding-y: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-md: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-sm: 20px;--gutenslider-arrow-size-md: 30px;--gutenslider-arrow-size-sm: 30px;--gutenslider-dot-size-md: 25px;--gutenslider-dot-size-sm: 25px;--gutenslider-arrow-bg-color: transparent;--gutenslider-arrow-hover-color: #eeeeee;--gutenslider-arrow-bg-hover-color: transparent;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset-md: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset-sm: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset-md: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-spacing: 0px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset: 10px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset-md: 10px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset-sm: 10px;--gutenslider-margin-x: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-x-md: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-x-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y-md: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-divider-top: 60px;--gutenslider-divider-bottom: 60px;--gutenslider-lightgallery-bg: #ffffff;--gutenslider-lightgallery-font: #000000;--gs-first-pos: 50% 50%;--gs-gap-vertical: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) );--gs-gap-horizontal: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) );\"><div class=\"gutenslider-divider-top\" style=\"color:#fff;\"><\/div><div class=\"swiper\" data-settings='{\"autoplay\":{\"delay\":3000,\"pauseOnMouseEnter\":true,\"disableOnInteraction\":false},\"speed\":700,\"direction\":\"horizontal\",\"autoHeight\":\"\",\"loop\":true,\"centeredSlides\":true,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"effect\":\"slide\",\"coverflowEffect\":{\"rotate\":30,\"slideShadows\":false,\"depth\":100,\"stretch\":50,\"modifier\":1},\"fadeEffect\":{\"crossFade\":true},\"zoom\":\"\",\"navigation\":{\"nextEl\":\"#gutenslider-b9ylx76yq .eedee-gutenslider-next\",\"prevEl\":\"#gutenslider-b9ylx76yq .eedee-gutenslider-prev\"},\"pagination\":{\"type\":\"bullets\",\"clickable\":true,\"dynamicBullets\":false,\"el\":\"#gutenslider-b9ylx76yq .eedee-gutenslider-pagination\"},\"pauseOnHover\":\"1\",\"watchSlidesProgress\":true,\"watchSlidesVisibility\":true,\"settingsMd\":{\"autoHeight\":\"\",\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"loop\":true},\"settingsLg\":{\"autoHeight\":\"1\",\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"loop\":true},\"hasLg\":true,\"hasLgCounter\":true,\"isFullScreen\":false,\"arrowsFollowMouse\":false,\"lgTitle\":\"none\",\"lgCaption\":\"none\",\"lgThumbnails\":true,\"lgZoomEnabled\":false,\"keyboard\":{\"keyboard\":{\"enabled\":true,\"onlyInViewport\":true}},\"hashNavigation\":false,\"dividers\":false}'><div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"swiper-slide wp-block-eedee-block-gutenslide is-position-center-center ed-bg-image\" style=\"--ed-vw:227;--ed-vh:300;\" data-hash=\"\"><div class=\"eedee-background-div bg-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"775\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-image-4523\" src=\"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d374-copia-2-775x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"object-fit: cover; 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object-position: 50% 50%;\"  data-caption=\"d374\" data-title=\"Santa Margherita d&#039;Antiochia\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d374-757x1024.jpg 757w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d374-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d374-768x1039.jpg 768w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d374-1135x1536.jpg 1135w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d374-108x146.jpg 108w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d374-37x50.jpg 37w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d374-55x75.jpg 55w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d374-709x960.jpg 709w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d374-355x480.jpg 355w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d374.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 480px, 757px\" \/><div class=\"eedee-background-div__overlay\" style=\"opacity:1;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"slide-content\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center gutenslider-content-initial has-larger-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><button class=\"eedee-gutenslider-nav eedee-gutenslider-prev\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\"><circle class=\"bg\" cx=\"13\" cy=\"12\" r=\"11\" \/><path fill=\"none\" d=\"M0 0h24v24H0z\"\/><path class=\"arrow\" d=\"M10.828 12l4.95 4.95-1.414 1.414L8 12l6.364-6.364 1.414 1.414z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><button class=\"eedee-gutenslider-nav eedee-gutenslider-next\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\"><circle class=\"bg\" cx=\"11\" cy=\"12\" r=\"11\" \/><path fill=\"none\" d=\"M0 0h24v24H0z\"\/><path class=\"arrow\" d=\"M13.172 12l-4.95-4.95 1.414-1.414L16 12l-6.364 6.364-1.414-1.414z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><div class=\"eedee-gutenslider-pagination\"><\/div><div class=\"gutenslider-divider-bottom \" style=\"color:#fff;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">JACOPO CHIMENTI also known as l\u2019EMPOLI<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Florence 1551-1640<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Saint Margaret of Antioch<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">oil on canvas, cm 116&#215;87,5<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jacopo Chimenti, along with Cigoli, Passignano and Santi di Tito, was among the most influential artists leading the way beyond the eccentricities and abstruseness of Mannerism, in the context of a renewed interest for nature drawing and a local early-Renaissance tradition which can be dated to the last centuries of the sixteenth century.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Despite the subtle idealization visible in her face, the beautiful young woman depicted in this painting shows hints of a moderate realism, noticeably in the careful observation of the light caressing her wrist, or in other details like the fine necklace around her neck which creates subtle shadows. Such emphasis on natural observation forcefully contrasts with the monstrous being under the saint\u2019s arm \u2013 which hints to her victory over the demon who appeared in the form of a dragon while she was in prison, waiting for her husband \u2013 a figment of the artist\u2019s imagination, therefore unreal. The horrifying yet likable appearance of the creature, definitely harmless despite its gaping jaws and flaming tongue, looks as if it has been dominated by the saint and the cross that Margherita holds before it.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The composition was already known to the scholars. Another version of it, part of a private Florentine collection, was published more than once as a piece by the artist starting from 1980; it was later shown in the large solo exhibition of Chimenti, held in Empoli in 2004. The painting\u2019s accompanying description highlighted the possibility that the woman\u2019s face was a portrait and the stylistic debt to Cigoli for the \u2018flowery\u2019 feature of the dress and the compositional \u2018ease\u2019 of the dragon, dating the work around the second decade. Spinelli also pointed out the existence of a preparatory drawing for the martyr, preserved in the Accademia di Scienze e Lettere la Colombaria in Florence, and an inventory mention of \u201ca saint holding a cross by l\u2019Empoli\u201d which was part of the Niccolini collection in the mid-seventeenth seventeenth century.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The image, also known in an additional signed version that was on the antiques market, must have enjoyed great popularity, motivated by the belief that the saint was the protector of women in labor.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2472,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio-types":[46],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-types?post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}