 | Saints Lawrence and Stephen |
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Date : 1408
Material : Tempera on canvas, Gold sheet
| Item 8 on 19
European Painting
Painting
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Florence (Italy)
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This side wing and its companion were once part of an altarpiece commissioned in 1408 by the confraternity of the Virgin and Saint Stephen for the church of Santo Stefano in Pane, outside Florence. The central panel, now in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, shows the Coronation of the Virgin.
Stephen, the church's patron saint and the first Christian martyr, is identified by stoning. Next to him is Saint Lawrence, holding the gridiron on which he was burned for his defiant acts of charity. When the altarpiece was still whole, the two saints would have appeared as witnesses to the central scene, the Coronation of the Virgin. | Item(s) related | |
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