This magnificent oil on canvas by the celebrated Venetian master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo depicts St. Francis of Paola rendered with the artist's characteristic luminous palette and dynamic brushwork. The saint is shown holding his traditional attributes — a rosary, book, and staff — with a sense of spiritual gravitas and devotion. Tiepolo's masterful handling of light and drapery imbues the composition with the theatrical grandeur and celestial radiance for which he became renowned throughout eighteenth-century Europe.