圣方济各·泽维尔与一位手持十字架的天使 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	圣方济各·泽维尔与一位手持十字架的天使
品名（英）	Saint Francis Xavier with an angel holding a crucifix
入馆年号	2010年，2010.114
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Francesco Bertos【1678 至 1741】【意大利人】
创作年份	公元 1717 - 公元 1727
创作地区
分类	雕塑青铜（Sculpture-Bronze）
尺寸	整体 (confirmed): 高 25 x 宽 14 x 深 6 1/16 英寸, 29磅 (63.5 x 35.6 x 15.4 厘米, 13.1543kg)
介绍（中）	1622年，耶稣会的共同创始人，圣依纳爵·洛约拉（1491–1556）和弗朗西斯·泽维尔（1506–1552）一起被册封。这两座雕塑很可能是为了纪念他们被册封一百周年。圣依纳爵以其心形的脸和社会的拉丁语格言"AD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM"（代表上帝的更大荣耀）而闻名，该格言显示在他身边的天使手中的书页上。圣方济各有一根行走的手杖，象征着一位四处旅行的传教士，他的短披风"曼德利纳"（mantellina）位于他的心脏附近，这是他与上帝经常神秘结合的象征。这两位圣徒是以保守的精神构思的，保留了16世纪晚期威尼斯雕塑的漫长、缓慢展开的动作，弗朗切斯科·贝托斯（Francesco Bertos）为其添加了轻快、闪闪发光的工具。贝托斯通常被视为准杂技团体（无论是青铜还是大理石）的糖果师，主要是随从天使的嬉闹风度和复古鼻子。这些经过深思熟虑的圣徒，一定是站在耶稣会巴洛克式辉煌祭坛的两侧，是他最杰出的人物。
介绍（英）	Cofounders of the Society of Jesus, Saints Ignatius Loyola (1491–1556) and Francis Xavier (1506–1552) were canonized together in 1622. These two sculptures may well have been made to mark the hundredth anniversary of their canonization. Saint Ignatius is distinguished by his heartshaped face and the Latin motto of the society, “AD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM” (for the greater glory of God), displayed on the pages of the book held by the angel beside him. Saint Francis has a walking staff, sign of the peripatetic missionary, and parts his short cape, the mantellina, near his heart, an allusion to his frequent moments of mystical union with God. The two saints are conceived in a conservative spirit, retaining the long, slowly unwinding movements of late sixteenth-century Venetian sculpture, to which Francesco Bertos added brisk, shimmery tooling. It is chiefly the frolicsome demeanor and retroussé noses of the attendant angels that bespeak Bertos, usually seen as a confectioner of quasiacrobatic groups, whether of bronze or marble. These well-ponderated saints, which must have flanked a Jesuit altar of Baroque splendor, stand out as the best of his figures.