Date : near 1350
Material : Tempera on canvas
Acquisition : Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Fund (1947)
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European Painting
Painting (Thème religieux)
Area related
Venise (Italy)
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Byzantine art exerted a powerful influence in Venice through the city's important trade connections with Constantinople and Byzantium in the eastern Mediterranean. This influence is apparent in the slender, insubstantial figures and rich patterns of gold and brocade found in the paintings of Paolo Veneziano and his workshop, which dominated Venetian altarpiece production around the middle of the fourteenth century.
These two panels must have been placed, perhaps with images of other standing saint, on either side of the central panel of an altarpiece probably depicting the Virgin and Child. No other parts of the altarpiece are known to have survived. In 1930, when Chicago collectors were actively buying early Italian paintings, these panels were bought by different collectors, only to be reunited in the Art Institute's collection in 1958.
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