![]() ![]() It took Professor Ruggio’s eye to see what others could not,” Dr. “It’s a beautiful piece of artistic expression that I looked at for 30 years. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and a parishioner at Church of the Holy Family. He was introduced by Teresa Delgado, Ph.D., Dean and Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, St. Ruggio is an expert in 16th- and 17th-century European art and has curated a number of exhibitions from the period. John, the third in a series of four works from elusive Florentine artist Cesare Dandini, who lived from 1596 to 1657. Ruggio and colleagues identified it as the lost masterpiece Holy Family with the Infant St. ![]() John’s University’s Queens, NY, campus on September 29. Ruggio’s quest to identify the painting, an effort he detailed in a lecture at St. It was technically and formally flawless.” I had been to this particular church many times, but on this day, the light was a little brighter and I noticed this painting. “It’s a habit I have, walking into churches during off hours,” Prof. Ruggio scanned the otherwise empty church and noticed something that had not drawn his attention before-a 17-century Baroque painting. On a random afternoon in the winter of 2020, Thomas Ruggio, M.F.A., Director and Associate Professor of Visual Arts at Iona University, took his usual seat in the rear of the Church of the Holy Family in New Rochelle, NY.Īfter a few minutes of quiet meditation, Prof. ![]()
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