Enciclopedia Cattolica

FRACASSINI, CESARE

Volume V · p. 928 · 1950

English translation · Testo originale italiano

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FRACASSINI, CESARE - I mariti goricimenti (1867) - Galleria dei quadri moderni del Vaticano.
FRACASSINI, CESARE - I mariti goricimenti (1867) - Galleria dei quadri moderni del Vaticano.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

In the Vatican and in the same collection is the painting for the beatification of Peter Canisius (1864). Pius IX commissioned him to fresco the triumphal arch and the walls of the basilica of St. Lawrence, but the master died after completing the arch and three panels: *The Ordination of St. Stephen*, *St. Lawrence Distributing Alms to the Poor*, and *St. Lawrence Presenting the Poor to Valerian*. Of the series, completed by Mei, Grandi, and Mariani, only one composition remains, *The Ordination of St. Stephen*, the others having been destroyed in the bombing of 19 July 1943.

Bibl.: E. Narducci, *C. S. F.*, Rome 1869; F. Noack, *S. V.* in Thieme-Becker, XII, pp. 270-71; S. Kamba, *C. F. Discorso nel cinquantesimo della morte*, Rome 1918; P. D’Achiardi, *C. F.* in *L’Urbe*, 3 (1938, XII).