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Date : approx. between 1270 and 1280
Material : Tempera on canvas
Acquisition : Samuel H. Kress Collection (1952)
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Italian Painting
Painting
Area related
Ombrie (Italy)
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Originally forming part of the back of an altarpiece, this panel when joined with a companion panel also in the Gallery's collection would have shown James Minor and John the Evangelist standing under an arcade.
The artist apparently modeled the arcade and the Roman-style dress after an early Christian sarcophagus unearthed in 1262. This marble coffin was reused for the burial of the Blessed Egido, a companion of Saint Francis, in the crypt of the church of San Francesco al Prato in Perugia. Probably the two panels here were originally in the same church, placed on the altar directly above Egido's coffin.
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