Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Quaratesi Polyptch: St. Nicholas Appeases the Tempest of the Sea
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Quaratesi Polyptch: St. Nicholas Appeases the Tempest of the Sea
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Alternate Title:
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Saint Nicholas of Bari Saves a Storm-Tossed Ship
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Image View:
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Detail of the ship, throwing cargo overboard in the storm
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Creator:
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Gentile da Fabriano (Italian painter, ca. 1370-1427)
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Location:
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repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy) Inv. 40249
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Location Note:
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Pinacoteca, Room II
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GPS:
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+41.906389+12.454444
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Date:
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1425 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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panel painting
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Work Type 2:
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predella
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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tempera paint on wood panel
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Technique:
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painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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38.2 cm (height) x 62 cm (width)
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Description:
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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.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-GENTILE-VM-SN-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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