Urbino. Dish "a Istoriato"

Urbino majolica dish with polychrome decoration in full "a istoriato" of a religious scene drawn from the acts of the Apostles * Titled on the reverse "La spiritata". Ateleir Patanazzi. Last quarter of the sixteenth century, about 1580.
Diameter: 30.2 cm. Two pieces glued back on the wing between 7 and 8 o'clock.

* This scene illustrates the vision of Saint Paul according to which the apostle, in the city of Philippi, a servant possessed by a spirit of divination. 16.16 As we went to the place of prayer, a servant who had a spirit of Python and who, by guessing, gave a great profit to her masters, came to us. 16.17 and began to follow us, Paul and us. She cried out, "These men are the servants of the Most High God, and they announce to you the sight of salvation. 16:18 And she did it for many days. Paul, tired, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And he went out at the same hour. (Act of the Apostles, Acts XVI, v, 16 to v. 18.)