Description
After Guido Reni (Italian, 1575-1642)
Mid 19th Century
St. Philip Neri in Ecstasy
oil on canvas
65 1/2 x 43 inches.
Purportedly brought from Rome by Fr. Ferdinand Kuhr (1806-1870), first pastor of Mother of God Church in Covington, Kentucky.
Rediscovered in Aurora, Indiana by Rev. Thomas Byrne, an early Sisters of Charity chaplain, who gifted...