04 works, Today, August 30th, is Saint Pammachius' day, his story illustrated #242

Aureliano Milani

Pammachius with the plan of the basilica he built , altarpiece, 1719

Basilica of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo in Rome

Aureliano Milani (1675–1749) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Bologna and Rome. He was a pupil of Cesare Gennari and Lorenzo Pasinelli in Bologna, although he also adhered to a style derived from the Carracci. He took up his residence in Rome, being ill able to support a family of ten children at Bologna. He painted a Beheaded St. John the Baptist for the church of the Bergamaschi in Rome. In Rome, he abounded with commissions, and was promoted with Domenico Maria Muratori and Donato Creti. Aureliano also taught during many years at Bologna, and among other pupils of his were Giuseppe Marchesi (called il Sansone) and Antonio Gionima. More on Aureliano Milani 

Pammachius (died c. 409 AD) was a Roman senator who is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. Pammachius became a monk, that is, put on a religious habit and gave himself up to works of charity. After his wife's death he built a hospice for poor strangers.

Pammachius was born to a noble Roman family. In youth he frequented the schools of rhetoric with St. Jerome, and in 385 he married Paulina, second daughter of St. Paula.

Unknown artist

Origen, the numbers homilia XXVII, Schäftlarn, c. approx. 1160

Bavarian State Library, Munich.

I have no further description, at this time

On Paulina's death in 397, Pammachius became a monk, put on a religious habit and gave himself up to works of charity. In 399 Pammachius and Oceanus wrote to St. Jerome asking him to translate Origen of Alexandria's De Principiis, and repudiate the insinuation of Rufinus that St. Jerome was of one mind with himself with regard to Origen. St. Jerome replied the following year. 

Charles-André van Loo  (1705–1765)

St. Augustine confounding the Donatist bishops at Carthage

Tempera on paper, mounted on canvas

Height: 385 cm (12.6 ft); Width: 445 cm (14.5 ft)

Victoria and Albert Museum

Carle or Charles-André van Loo, (15 February 1705 – 15 July 1765) was a French subject painter. He was the most famous member of a successful dynasty of painters of Dutch origin. His oeuvre includes every category: religion, history painting, mythology, portraiture, allegory, and genre scenes. Charles-André was born in Nice, then part of the Duchy of Savoy. Van Loo followed his brother Jean-Baptiste to Turin, and then to Rome in 1712, where he studied under Benedetto Luti and the sculptor Pierre Legros. After leaving Italy in 1723, he worked in Paris, studied at the Académie Royale, where he gained first prize for drawing in 1723, and received the first prize for historical painting in 1727. After again visiting Turin in 1727, he was employed by king Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, for whom he painted a series of subjects illustrative of Tasso. In 1734 he settled in Paris, and in 1735 became a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and rose rapidly in the hierarchy of the academy. Madame de Pompadour and the French court were taking the artist under their patronage. He was decorated with the Order of Saint Michael and named First Painter to king Louis XV of France in 1762. He was a most successful court painter but his portraits as well as history paintings also enjoyed an enormous success throughout all Europe. He died in Paris on 15 July 1765. More on Carle or Charles-André

In 401 Pammachius was thanked by St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa, for a letter he wrote to the people of Numidia, in Algeria, where he owned property, exhorting them to abandon the Donatist schism; a Christian group in North Africa that broke with the Roman Catholics in 312 over the election of Caecilian as bishop of Carthage. Many of St. Jerome's commentaries on Scripture were dedicated to Pammachius.

After Jean-Jacques Henner (French, 1829-1905),

St. Fabiola, mid-20th-century

Oil on canvas

 11.25" x 8.5"

Private Collection

Jean-Jacques Henner (15 March 1829 – 23 July 1905) was a French painter. Henner was born at Bernwiller (Alsace). He began his studies in art as a pupil of Michel Martin Drolling and François-Édouard Picot. In 1848, he entered the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, and took the Prix de Rome with a painting of Adam and Eve finding the Body of Abel in 1858. In Rome, he was guided by Flandrin, and painted four pictures for the gallery at Colmar among other works.

 

Henner's most widely known work is his 1885 portrait of Saint Fabiola. Although the original is now lost, it was copied by artists around the world for devotional purposes. Artist Francis Alÿs has collected over 500 copies of the portrait in a variety of media. The collection, known as the "Fabiola Project," is on exhibit at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel of the Menil Collection in Houston from May 21, 2016 - May 13, 2018.

 

Henner died at age 76 in Paris. More Jean-Jacques Henner

After his wife's death Pammachius built in conjunction with St. Fabiola a hospice at Porto, at the mouth of the Tiber opposite Ostia, for poor strangers.

The liturgical feast of Pammachius is kept on 30 August. More on Saint Pammachius

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