THE INCREDULITY OF SAINT THOMAS
Artist Giovan Domenico d'Auria (attributed to) documented, Naples between 1541 and 1573
Date mid-16th century
Object type relief Medium, technique marble
Dimensions 118 × 97 × 13 cm, 298 kg Inventory number 59.10
Collection Sculptures
On view This artwork is not on display
The relief was probably the middle part of a marble altar. On its two sides, and thus with a semblance of
perspective, we see the apostles surrounding the risen Christ, whose wounds are being inspected by a doubting Thomas. Evidently, the sculptor sought to emphasise the individual character and emotions of the apostles by giving them different facial expressions, gestures and clothing. Stylistically, the work shows a close affinity with sixteenth-century Neapolitan art. The nearest analogy is with the apostles of the marble altar of Mary’s Ascension in the Somma Chapel of the Church of San Giovanni a Carbonara, Naples. The stylistic similarities of the two works suggest that the relief in Budapest was also produced by the Neapolitan sculptor Gian Domenico d’Auria.
References
Balogh, Jolán, Katalog der ausländischen Bildwerke des Museums der bildenden Künste in Budapest, IV – XVIII.
Jahrhundert: 1. Textband Bd. 1, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1975, p. 162., no. 210.
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