Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Saints A - Z / Nicholas of Myra (Bari) / Posthumous Miracle / Rescuing a boy from the non-Christian king

Further details

Roundel showing a miracle of St Nicholas of Myra; St Nicholas appeared on his Saints day and rescued a boy who had been captured by a non-Christian king and forced to serve as a cupbearer, returning him to his parents. It shows St Nicholas and the boy who he holds by the hair flying through clouds

Artist or creator

Castelli perhaps

Date

1720 (circa) - 1780 (circa)

Location

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica and Europe, Oxford 2017, cat. no. 170

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