Mattia Preti's Madonna of Constantinople and the Marian cult in seventeenth-century Naples.

"Examines the iconography of Preti's paintings, executed in 1657 for S. Agostino degli Scalzi, Naples (now in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples), in relation to the cult of the Madonna of Constantinople and as a votive image relating to a miraculous architype, the Hodegitria. Finds that the intentions of the patrons Giovanni Tommaso and Marino Schipani, as stated in the installation contract (publ. in an appendix) and the contemporary treatise on the cult connect the painting to the issue of the function of images after the Council of Trent" (BHA).