“It was with this particular canvas in mind that Longhi ... wrote: ‘in its new miracle-working, steeped in humanity, with the new martyrs rising like sails blown by the gusts of the imminent hurricane dragging the low clouds all the way over troubled Bologna, on the horizon’;. Additionally, one might add once again that the stormy and crepuscular pathos of Ludovico’s work gives a ‘romantic’ tone, so to speak, to his proto-Baroque, which lacks the gilded Olympian quality of the true Roman Baroque ”.