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Umberto Boccioni - Woman in armchair
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Mario Sironi - Outskirts
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Filippo de Pisis - Ducal Palace
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Carlo Carrà - Marina with sails
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Angelo Morbelli - Garden at the Colma
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Camillo Procaccini - Immaculate Conception with Saint Francesco d'Assisi (Lily among Thorns)
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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, detto Guercino - The Veil of Veronica
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Gustave Adolf Amberger - View of Taormina
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Teofilo Patini - Capuchin friar sitting with snuffbox in hand
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Ortensio Crespi - St. Francis of Assisi in ecstasy
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Jacopo Negretti, detto Palma il Giovane - Madonna announced (pendant)
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Jacopo Negretti, detto Palma il Giovane - Annunciation Angel (pendant)
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Ugo Gheduzzi - Plowing
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Giuseppe Nuvolone - St. Clare of Assisi with monstrance and apparition of Francis of Assisi
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Pasquale Canna - Church of the Immaculate Conception of Milan on the occasion of the triduum for the beatification of Fra Crispino da Viterbo in September 1809
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Saint Francis receives the stigmata on Monte della Verna - Italo-Cretan school
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Photographic portrait with lock of hair and autograph of Alessandro Manzoni, frame in pure gold worked with the Manzoni coat of arms
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Madonna of the Candelabra
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Mortuary mask of St. Charles Borromeo
Umberto Boccioni - Woman in armchair
Mario Sironi - Outskirts
Filippo de Pisis - Ducal Palace
Carlo Carrà - Marina with sails
Angelo Morbelli - Garden at the Colma
Camillo Procaccini - Immaculate Conception with Saint Francesco d'Assisi (Lily among Thorns)
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, detto Guercino - The Veil of Veronica
Gustave Adolf Amberger - View of Taormina
Teofilo Patini - Capuchin friar sitting with snuffbox in hand
Ortensio Crespi - St. Francis of Assisi in ecstasy
Jacopo Negretti, detto Palma il Giovane - Madonna announced (pendant)
Jacopo Negretti, detto Palma il Giovane - Annunciation Angel (pendant)
Ugo Gheduzzi - Plowing
Giuseppe Nuvolone - St. Clare of Assisi with monstrance and apparition of Francis of Assisi
Pasquale Canna - Church of the Immaculate Conception of Milan on the occasion of the triduum for the beatification of Fra Crispino da Viterbo in September 1809
Saint Francis receives the stigmata on Monte della Verna - Italo-Cretan school
Photographic portrait with lock of hair and autograph of Alessandro Manzoni, frame in pure gold worked with the Manzoni coat of arms
Madonna of the Candelabra
Mortuary mask of St. Charles Borromeo

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Description

The Friar with the snuffbox is a medium-sized canvas present in the collection of the Capuchin Museum since its opening.

Among the works of the Capuchin Museum this Friar with a snuffbox is a classic image of the long-bearded Capuchin friar, alone in his room, sitting on a wooden stool near a brazier, closed in his cloak. A representation that pushes us to search for the uses of the Capuchin life which, from the very beginning, was austere and simple and which allowed small concessions such as tobacco.

Our Capuchin friar, understood in his thoughts, has in fact between his fingers a pinch of tobacco that was considered to have therapeutic powers and therefore, in measured doses, could be consumed. It is a small painting that could fit into a larger group of works created by Teofilo Patini between the eighth and ninth decade of the nineteenth century, when he came into contact with certain Masonic circles that had also procured him ecclesiastical commissions. However, it seems that his interest in the environment of the convent and the figures of some Capuchin friars, is declined with a certain criticism of that world.

What is certain, however, is that Teofilo Patini expresses himself with the symbolist language of the end of the century to describe the realism of his works.


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