- Title:
- Left Pilaster of an Altarpiece
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- These saints come from a polyptych (a multi-panelled altarpiece) painted in about 1450 for the church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Pratovecchio, Tuscany. Other parts of the altarpiece are also in the National Gallery.San Giovanni was a Camaldolese nunnery, and the saints included are those who were important to the nuns there. At the top we see Saint Benedict, author of the Benedictine Rule (the regulations of his religious order) which the Camaldolites followed. In the centre is a pope, possibly Gregory the Great. At the bottom there's a bearded monk in white, probably Saint Romuald, the founder of the Camaldolese order. Benedict and Romuald both wear white, as did the Camaldolites.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1859-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1859
- Date - latest:
- 1859
- Credit line:
- Bought, 1857
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/82/595/56/mid_N-0584-03-000013.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 115.50
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- egg tempera on wood
- Material:
- egg tempera
- Material:
- poplar
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian (Tuscan)
- Object production date:
- about 1450?
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1450
- Date - latest:
- 1450
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1450-99
- Object production person:
- Jacopo di Antonio (Master of Pratovecchio?)
- Person's birth date:
- 1427
- Person's death date:
- 1454
- Object production person:
- Italian, Tuscan
- Other number:
- NG584.3
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0F2L-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG584.3
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- NG584
- Other number type:
- Previous Object Number
- Other number:
- 000-032L-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng2584.03
- 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:
- Gothic
- Style:
- early Renaissance
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Fifteenth Century Italian Paintings
- Reference details:
- 122-33
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 521-4
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 405-6
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 348
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/0443bf07-c359-3604-b25b-c03778a33c9e
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/0443bf07-c359-3604-b25b-c03778a33c9e, National Gallery, CC BY
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