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Date : between 1335 and 1340
Material : Tempera on canvas
Acquisition : (1919)
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Italian Painting
Painting
Area related
Florence (Italy)
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This dismembered polyptych formed the high altarpiece painted by Bemardo Daddi during the 1330s for the church of San Pancrazio, Florence. Some parts are missing. The design of the altarpiece was fairly elaborate, with panels ranged in three tiers extending downwards from the main field into the predella below and terminating above in a series of gabled pinnacles. The principal section shows the Virgin and Child Enthroned with three full-length saints on either side (Sts Pancrazio, Zenobius and John the Evangelist to the left and Sts John the Baptist, Reparata and Miniato to the right). The predella comprises scenes from the early life of the Virgin (Joachim being banished from the Temple, Joachim and the shepherds, Meeting at the Golden Gate, Birth of the Virgin, Presentation of Mary in the Temple, Annunciation, Birth of Christ). The sixth panel in the narrative sequence, the Marriage of the Virgin is in the Royal Collection, Windsor.
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