About this artwork
An unidentified saint and his companion kneel as they are baptised by a robed priest. They are watched by two people from a doorway. The architecture frames the event rather like stage scenery. The figures with stylised features and schematic modelling are large in relation to the setting. The panel, one of two in the collection, originally formed part of a predella of five scenes at the base of an altarpiece. The saint may have appeared either in the main panel with the Virgin and Christ Child or in an adjoining panel flanking the central image.
Updated before 2020
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title:A Baptism
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date created:About 1350
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materials:Tempera and gold on panel
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measurements:18.60 x 31.80 cm; Framed: 34.00 x 77.60 x 5.00 cm / 7.00 kg
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credit line:Purchased 1921
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accession number:NG 1539 A
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Master of the San Lucchese Altarpiece
Master of the San Lucchese Altarpiece
This Italian artist, whose precise identity has not yet been discovered, was named by art historians after an altarpiece once in the church of San Lucchese, Poggibonsi, south of Florence. Other works made in a similar style have been attributed to the same painter. These pictures suggest that he...