''The Incredulity of Saint Thomas'' is a 1543–1547 painting by Francesco Salviati. It was commissioned for the

église Notre-Dame-de-Confort The Église Notre-Dame-de-Confort (''Church of Our Lady of Comfort'') was a church in the French city of Lyon, near Place des Jacobins, where a plaque marks its site. History Founded in 1218, the church was under Dominican control and used by ...

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...

Thomas II de Gadagne Thomas II de Gadagne, known as Thomas the Magnificent (1495, Florence - 1543, Avignon) was an Italian banker active in France. Life He inherited a large fortune from his uncle Thomas I de Gadagne as well as solid commercial and financial positi ...

(also known as Tomaso Guadagni), a Florentine counselor to

Francis I of France Francis I (french: François Ier; frm, Francoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin on ...

. It is now held in the

Louvre Museum The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...

and measures 275 cm by 234 cm. It is signed ''FRANCESCO SALVIATO FLO. OPUS (S.B.D.)'' and the apostle shown in three-quarter-profile is a self-portrait of Salviati. Its choice of subject reflects an anti-

Medici The House of Medici ( , ) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici, in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century. The family originated in the Mu ...

political viewpoint shared by commissioner and artist. The work proved popular from its arrival in Lyon onwards and was copied by several artists in several media, including an engraving by

Master CC Master or masters may refer to: Ranks or titles * Ascended master, a term used in the Theosophical religious tradition to refer to spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans *Grandmaster (chess), National Master ...

. Even after art history began to neglect art produced in and for Lyon, the painting was one of few such works still to be mentioned - for example, it appears in

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work '' The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculp ...

's ''

Lives Lives may refer to: * The plural form of a '' life'' * Lives, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran * The number of lives in a video game * '' Parallel Lives'', aka ''Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans'', a series of biographies of famous ...

''.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Incredulity of Saint Thomas, The category:1547 paintings Paintings depicting Jesus Paintings about death Christian art about death Paintings depicting Thomas the Apostle Paintings in the Louvre by Italian artists