Flying and Adoring Angels

Description This early work by Fetti was installed in the chapel of the Mainardi family in the church of San Lorenzo in Damaso in Rome. It was painted as a background for an image of the Virgin and Child in an oval frame. At some point, the inset painting was removed, and today there is an 18th-century Virgin and Child in its place. During the 17th century, early religious images were often considered more sacred than contemporary ones, which explains why Fetti was commissioned to paint a monumental work to frame and enhance another picture. For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 312, pp. 439-441.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
2/19/1942	Treatment	cleaned
11/23/1953	Treatment	cleaned
1/19/1954	Treatment	cleaned; loss compensation; other
6/01/1962	Treatment	Loss compensation; mounted; coated
11/07/1969	Treatment	coated
9/01/1987	Treatment	reconstructed; loss compensation; coated; re-framed
3/06/1996	Loan Consideration	examined for loan

Exhibitions

• Going for Baroque. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995-1996.

Provenance The Church of San Lorenzo, Damaso, Rome, 1614/1615-ca. 1868, by commission; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 271]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902