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Title:
Saint Michael: Roundel above Left Panel
Object name(s):
Picture; Italian
Brief description:
This small roundel of the Archangel Michael comes from a large polyptych (multi-panelled altarpiece) painted by the Florentine artist Giovanni dal Ponte for the high altar of the church of Saint Giovanni Evangelista in Pratovecchio in Tuscany. In it, Saint Michael holds a sword for fighting the devil and scales to weigh souls at the Last Judgement.Other panels from the altarpiece are also in the National Gallery -- it's one of the most complete early Renaissance polyptychs in the collection.
Collection:
National Gallery
Accession date:
1857-01-01
Date - earliest / single:
1857
Date - latest:
1857
Credit line:
Bought, 1857
Current location:
Not on display
Current reproduction location:
3/551/842/183/mid_N-0580-06-000009.jpg
Dimension:
Height
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
13.40
Dimension:
Width
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
13.40
Form:
None
Material:
egg tempera on wood
Material:
egg tempera
Material:
poplar
Object name:
Picture; Italian
Object production date:
about 1420-4?
Date - earliest / single:
1420
Date - latest:
1424
Object production date:
Date - period:
1400-49
Object production person:
Giovanni dal Ponte
Person's birth date:
1385
Person's death date:
1437
Other number:
NG580.6
Other number type:
object number
Other number:
0FCV-0001-0000-0000
Other number type:
PID
Other number:
NG580.6
Other number type:
display number
Other number:
NG580
Other number type:
Previous Object Number
Other number:
000-0329-0000
Other number type:
PID (NG alternative)
Other number:
ng2580.06
Other number type:
sort number
Owner:
Ugo Baldi
Responsible department/section:
Main Collection
Right note:
To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Style:
Gothic
Style:
early Renaissance
User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: The Fifteenth Century Italian Paintings
Reference details:
104-17
Reference note:
Latest catalogue
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
Reference details:
246-7
Reference note:
Previous catalogues
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
Reference details:
192-3
Reference note:
Previous catalogues
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
Reference details:
268
Reference note:
Key bibliography
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
The National Gallery : review of the year, April 2011 – March 2012
Reference details:
Ill. (p. [41])
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
A closer look : angels /Erika Langmuir.
Reference details:
Ill. fig. 59 (p. 77); ill. fig. 62 (p. 79)
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
Devotion by design : Italian altarpieces before 1500 /Scott Nethersole.
Reference details:
Ill. fig. 41 (p. 62)
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
»Kult Bild« : das Altar- und Andachtsbild von Duccio bis Perugino /Ausstellung und Katalog von Jochen Sander mit Beiträgen von Matthias Th. Kloft … [et al.]
Reference details:
Ill. fig. 52 (p. 88)
Reference type:
reference

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Use licence for this record: CC BY

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