- Title:
- Male Members of a Confraternity
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- Nine men kneel in prayer, heads bare, hats in hands. Behind them stands a saint -- we can only see his hand -- wearing a brown garment (perhaps the habit worn by members of a religious order). It is possibly Saint Francis, who founded the Franciscan Order, presenting the men to the object of their devotion.These are the male members of a confraternity (a quasi-religious brotherhood) and the painting once formed part of the banner which the confraternity carried in processions. Another fragment, also in the National Gallery's collection, shows the female members.We don't know who the artist was, but the style of dress worn in both fragments was fashionable in about 1500. They were perhaps members of the confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, founded in Milan in 1475 under the oversight of the Franciscans.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1867-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1867
- Date - latest:
- 1867
- Credit line:
- Bought, 1867
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 271/420/149/mid_N-0779-00-000009.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 64.50
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 41.90
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Material:
- wood
- Material:
- oil on canvas, mounted on wood
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian (Milanese)
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1500-24
- Object production date:
- about 1500
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1500
- Date - latest:
- 1500
- Object production person:
- Italian, Milanese
- Object production place:
- Italy
- Object production place:
- Milan
- Other number:
- NG779
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0FP3-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG779
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-03VO-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng2779
- Other number type:
- sort number
- 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:
- donor portraits
- Style:
- male portraits
- Style:
- high Renaissance
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 82-3
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 344
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 64-5
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Ambrogio da Fossano detto il Borgognone
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Catalogue of Pictures by Masters of the Milanese and Allied Schools of Lombardy
- Reference details:
- xxxvii
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A History of Painting in North Italy: Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Milan, Friuli, Brescia, from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century
- Reference details:
- 2.47-8
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 67
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- An Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 28
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the British and Foreign Pictures
- Reference details:
- 75
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery, Trafalgar Square: Catalogue of the Pictures
- Reference details:
- 197
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 41
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Some Notes on the Early Milanese Painters Butinone and Zenale. Part III (Conclusion). Zenale as a Portrait Painter
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Giulio Carotti
- Reference details:
- 304
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
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