Saint Ignatius Loyola
Miguel Cabrera captures the spiritual intensity of the Baroque era in this celestial vision of Saint Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. Floating on clouds, the saint holds a book inscribed with the order's famous motto, 'Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam' (For the greater glory of God), while cherubs present a red banner with the IHS monogram. Beneath him, a figure clutches books in distress, representing the triumph of divine revelation over earthly error. Cabrera, a leading painter of 18th-century Mexico, masterfully uses deep blues and dramatic lighting to lift the viewer's eye toward the divine triangle in the saint's halo.
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- Oil painting
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