- Title:
- God the Father
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- God the Father makes a blessing gesture with one hand and holds an orb, representing the earth, in the other. The small size and round shape tell us that this panel probably once decorated part of the frame of an altarpiece.Whoever painted this picture was interested in making sure that the figure looked fully three-dimensional: God seems to be grasping the orb firmly from beneath. They’ve also taken the viewer's position – standing below the image – into account, as we see the underside of God’s hand.It was once thought to be by the Florentine painter Masaccio, part of his altarpiece for Santa Maria del Carmine, Pisa (the central panel of which is now in the National Gallery’s collection). It’s not, but some elements of it -- the interest in the solidity of the figure and thoughtfulness about viewpoints -- suggest that it was made in or around Florence.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1922-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1922
- Date - latest:
- 1922
- Acquisition source:
- Charles de Sousy Ricketts
- Acquisition source:
- Charles Haslewood Shannon
- Associated concept:
- religious imagery
- Associated concept:
- God the Father
- Credit line:
- Presented by Charles Ricketts and Charles Haslewood Shannon through the Art Fund, 1922
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 285/983/187/mid_N-3627-00-000011.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 12.80
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 13.10
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- egg tempera
- Material:
- poplar
- Material:
- egg tempera on wood
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian (Florentine)
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1400-49
- Object production date:
- about 1430-40
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1430
- Date - latest:
- 1440
- Object production person:
- Italian, Florentine
- Object production place:
- Italy
- Object production place:
- Florence
- Other number:
- NG3627
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0GFA-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG3627
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04R3-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng33627
- 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:
- 68-9
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 189
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 146-7
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 339
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/7893c95e-e3d0-392d-9040-c6d9e8e0e879
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/7893c95e-e3d0-392d-9040-c6d9e8e0e879, National Gallery, CC BY
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