Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Quaratesi Polyptch: St. Nicholas Appeases the Tempest of the Sea
Alternate Title:
Saint Nicholas of Bari Saves a Storm-Tossed Ship
Image View:
Detail of the ship, throwing cargo overboard in the storm
Creator:
Gentile da Fabriano (Italian painter, ca. 1370-1427)
Location:
repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy) Inv. 40249
Location Note:
Pinacoteca, Room II
GPS:
41.906389 12.454444
Date:
1425 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Work Type 2:
predella
Classification:
painting
Material:
tempera paint on wood panel
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
38.2 cm (height) x 62 cm (width)
Description:
In May 1425 Gentile completed a polyptych (now dispersed) commissioned by the Quaratesi family for the high altar of S Niccolò sopr’Arno that consisted of a Virgin and Child with Angels (London, N.G.), SS Mary Magdalene, Nicholas, John the Baptist, and George (Florence, Uffizi) and five predella panels (four in Rome, Vatican, Pin., one in Washington, DC, N.G.A.). This is one of the four predella panels in the Vatican Museums, all with scenes of the life of St. Nicholas. Vasari considered this altarpiece to be the best work by Gentile that he had seen, and it served as a model for Fra Angelico and Domenico Veneziano as well as Bicci di Lorenzo and other minor masters. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-GENTILE-VM-SN-A0 3
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Quaratesi Polyptch: St. Nicholas Appeases the Tempest of the Sea