St Andrea Avellino
by LANFRANCO, Giovanni, Oil on canvas, 420 x 320 cm
In Lanfranco’s altarpiece, which stands more than four metres high in the right transept of Sant’Andrea della Valle in Rome, St Andrea Avellino gazes up, wearing an inward-looking expression. The heavens open and a host of angels descend from the skies as the wide-eyed altar-boy standing behind the saint stares up. The large angel at the upper left spreads his arms and looks down at Avellino.