Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Scenes from the Life of Saint Benedict
Alternate Title:
Predella Panel from the San Benedetto Altarpiece
Image View:
Overall view of the panel, showing the temptation of a young monk at left and St. Benedict at far right raising up a young monk
Creator:
Lorenzo Monaco (Italian painter, ca. 1370-1425)
Location:
repository: Musei Vaticani (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy) Inv. 40193
Location Note:
Pinacoteca
GPS:
41.906389 12.454444
Date:
ca. 1407-1409 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Late Gothic
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Work Type 2:
predella
Classification:
painting
Material:
tempera paint on wood panel
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Description:
Piero di Giovanni, known as Lorenzo Monaco was a monk in the Camaldolese Order in Florence. The altarpiece of the "Coronation of the Virgin" now in the National Gallery, London was painted by Lorenzo Monaco for the Camaldolese monastery of San Benedetto fuori della Porta Pinti, Florence, probably between 1407 and 1409. The predella showed scenes from the Life of Saint Benedict; the single panel in the Vatican is from this predella. The panel depicts 'A Young Monk tempted from Prayer' and 'Saint Benedict raises a Young Monk'. (Source: Paul Ackroyd, Larry Keith and Dillian Gordon; The Restoration of Lorenzo Monaco's 'Coronation of the Virgin': Retouching and Display, National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 21, (01407430525457))
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-MONA-VM-TM-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Scenes from the Life of Saint Benedict