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Date : approx. between 1390 and 1400
Material : Tempera on canvas
| Polyptych with Coronation of the Virgin and Saints
Item 16 on 19
European Painting
Painting
Area related
Florence (Italy)
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The altarpiece decorated a chapel dedicated to Saint Benedict in the Church of Santa Trinità, Florence, which explains why Saint Benedict is portrayed twice, on the left panel and again in a predella scene below. The Virgin's death is represented in the predella at the center. To either side are scenes of saints triumphing over evil. On the far left, Saint Benedict exorcises a devil, and in the panel to the right Saint John baptizes Christ. To the right of the Virgin's death, devils torment Saint Anthony, while on the far right Saint Lawrence liberates a soul from purgatory.
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