Interior of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp
dated 1665 | Anton Günther Gheringh
The painting depicts the interior of Antwerp’s Jesuit Church, which was richly decorated with precious materials. Rubens supplied a large number of paintings for the church, among them two that were displayed alternately on the high altar. Here we see his “Miracles of St. Ignatius of Loyola”. In the right aisle is the entrance to the Chapel of St. Mary with a section of Rubens’s “Assumption”. It, like the two high-altar paintings, has been in the possession of the former imperial collection in Vienna since 1776.
The painting depicts the interior of Antwerp’s Jesuit Church, which was richly decorated with precious materials. Rubens supplied a large number of paintings for the church, among them two that were displayed alternately on the high altar. Here we see his “Miracles of St. Ignatius of Loyola”. In the right aisle is the entrance to the Chapel of St. Mary with a section of Rubens’s “Assumption”. It, like the two high-altar paintings, has been in the possession of the former imperial collection in Vienna since 1776.
Artist:
Anton Günther Gheringh (gest. 1668 Antwerpen) DNB
Time:
dated 1665
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Flemish
Material/technology:
Canvas
Dimensions:
113 cm × 141 cm
Framed (gallery frame): 131 cm × 159 cm × 8 cm
Signed
Inscribed at lower left: A. Gheringh: ao: 1665
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 602
Provenance
1776 acquired from the Jesuits Casa Professa in Antwerp