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{{Short description|Painting by Francesco Guardi}}
{{Infobox artwork
| image_file=Francesco Guardi 054.jpg
| image_size=350px
| title=Miracle of a Dominican Saint
| artist=[[Francesco Guardi]]
| year=1763
| medium=oil on canvas
| height_metric=122
| width_metric=172
| metric_unit=cm
| imperial_unit=in
| museum=[[Kunsthistorisches Museum]]
| city=[[Vienna]]
}}
The '''''Miracle of a Dominican Saint''''' is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian painter [[Francesco Guardi]], from 1763. It is held in the collection of the [[Kunsthistorisches Museum]], in [[Vienna]].<ref>[https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/848/ Miracle of a Dominican Saint, Kunsthistorisches Museum (German)]</ref>
==History and provenance==
The painting was made for the chapel of Saint Dominic in the Church of Saint Peter the Martyr, on the island of [[Murano]], [[Venice]], where it was until 1807; since 1825 it was preserved in the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice. It was afterwards acquired by Daniele Polacco, in Venice, and later by Count Andrássy, in Budapest. In 1931 it was acquired by the [[Kunsthistorisches Museum]], in [[Vienna]], with the help of the friends of the museum, where it has been since then.<ref>Wolfgang Prohaska, ''The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna: The Paintings'', London, Scala Publishers, 2011</ref>
==Description==
The painting depicts one of the miracles attributed to a Dominican saint, in this case, possibly [[Gundisalvus of Amarante]] or St. [[Hyacinth of Poland]], i.e. Jacek Odrovonzh (1183/85–1257), when he was able to save from drowning the monks who had felt from a bridge, which collapsed during the flood of the [[Dnieper]]. Using an almost impressionistic style, which seems influenced by [[Alessandro Magnasco]], the artist portrays the characters and the empty landscape with vigorous brushstrokes. Similarly to his [[veduta]], Guardi parts here with accuracy, creating a painting outside of time and space, where the figures seem to have lost their flesh and acquired a light vibration. The sky and water join each other, and by this union the canvas conveys a sense of infinity.<ref>Wolfgang Prohaska, ''The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna: The Paintings'', London, Scala Publishers, 2011</ref>
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