The Miracle of a Dominican Saint is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian painter Francesco Guardi, from 1763.
[2] The painting depicts one of the miracles attributed to a Dominican saint, in this case, possibly Gundisalvus of Amarante or St. Hyacinth of Poland, i.e. Jacek Odrovonzh (1183/85–1257), when he was able to save from drowning the monks who had felt from a bridge, which collapsed during the flood of the Dnieper.
Using an almost impressionistic style, which seems influenced by Alessandro Magnasco, the artist portrays the characters and the empty landscape with vigorous brushstrokes.
Similarly to his veduta, Guardi parts here with accuracy, creating a painting outside of time and space, where the figures seem to have lost their flesh and acquired a light vibration.
The sky and water join each other, and by this union the canvas conveys a sense of infinity.