Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Miracle of the Desecrated Host [predella]
Alternate Title:
Profanation of the Host
Image View:
Detail, scene 3 and 4; the Host is reconsecrated; the woman is punished and an angel descends from heaven
Creator:
Paolo Uccello (Italian painter, 1397-1475)
Location:
repository: Galleria Nazionale delle Marche (Urbino, Marches, Italy)
Location Note:
Palazzo Ducale di Urbino; Piazza Rinascimento 13
GPS:
43.723333 12.637778
Date:
1465-1469 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Work Type 2:
predella
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
paint on wood panel
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
43 cm (height) x 351 cm (width)
Relation Work:
component of Communion of the Apostles
Subjects:
literary or legendary; Anti-Semitism
Description:
The Miracle of the Desecrated Host was painted by Uccello in Urbino between 1465 and 1469 as the predella for the altarpiece showing the Communion of the Apostles that Justus of Ghent (Joos van Wassenhove) painted in 1472 for the church of Corpus Domini in Urbino. The predella tells the anti-Semitic legend through six episodes. The six scenes are not unanimously attributed to Paolo Uccello. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-GHENT-GNM-CA-A10
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Miracle of the Desecrated Host [predella]