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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Portinari Altarpiece
Alternate Title:
Portinari Triptych
Image View:
Detail, background landscape with the Three Magi on the road to Bethlehem
Creator:
Hugo van der Goes (Netherlandish painter, ca. 1440-1482)
Location:
repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 nn. 3191-3193
Location Note:
Piazzale degli Uffizi
GPS:
43.768639 11.255214
Date:
ca. 1473-1478 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian; Netherlandish
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
altarpiece
Work Type 2:
panel painting
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on wood panels
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
253 cm (height, central panel) x 304 cm (width, central panel)
Subjects:
New Testament; saints; Mary Magdalene, Saint; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Description:
In the first edition of the Vite (1550) Vasari wrote that the picture at S Maria Nuova in Florence was by ‘Ugo d’Anversa’. This picture is assumed to be the Portinari Altarpiece, a large triptych with the Nativity or Adoration of the Shepherds from the church of S Egidio in the hospital of S Maria Nuova. The patrons of S Maria Nuova were the Portinari family, and it was Tommaso Portinari, agent for the Medici bank in Bruges, who commissioned the altarpiece. Tommaso is shown on the left wing with his sons Antonio and Pigello, presented by SS Thomas and Anthony, and his wife, Maria Baroncelli, on the right wing with their daughter, Margherita, and SS Mary Magdalene and Margaret. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-VANDERG-UG-ASA-B 06
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Portinari Altarpiece