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Polyptych
история:
This is a well-preserved polyptych, separated by the arcades of a gold-leafed frame (Figure 8).[43] Here we are definitely dealing with an altarpiece.
The altarpiece may be the object mentioned in a document from Chiara's own hand, dated 1405, which records a legacy left to the convent by Chiara's aunt, Monna Giovanna; among the gifts were funds for building the church and 'la tavola dello altare'.
[In a later footnote Ann Roberts notes that the nuns still have a stone tablet recording the Masses to be said for Francesco Datini's friend, Manno degli Agli, who died in Pisa, 1400, on the days of St Mary Madgalen, St Birgitta, St John the Baptist, and St Domenic. Those of St Mary Magdalen and St Birgitta are on contiguous days.]

The polyptych originally had a predella, which Miklos Boskovits has identified with five predella panels in the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin. The predellas in Berlin are attributed on the basis of style to Martino di Bartolomeo.

These predellas have as their theme the achievements and miracles of Saint Birgitta of Sweden, the mystic and reformer who died in Italy in 1373. After her death, her visions and prophecies were edited by her confessor, Alfonso Pecha da Vadaterra, Bishop of Jaen, who circulated copies of the Liber Celestis Revelationum all over Europe. Birgitta also founded a monastic order, based - like the Dominicans' - on the rule of St Augustine; the order flourished in the fifteenth century not only in her native Sweden, but in Italy, the Lowlands, and England. She was canonized in 1391, and her sanctity was confirmed in 1419 by Martin V.[52]. Although she was championed by powerful members of the order, her feast was not entered on the Dominican calendar. So her presence in the high altarpiece for the church of San Domenico cannot be linked to the order's own liturgy.

автор:
Джованни ди Пьетро ди Наполи, Мартино ди Бартоломео
Giovanni di Pietro di Napoli, Martino di Bartolomeo
место:
Пиза: монастырь св. Доминика
Pisa: convent of San Domenico
композиция:
БР и Младенец со святыми
Virgin and Child with saints
пределла
predella
оформление:
1405 (1404).
A fragmentary inscription in the center panel dates the painting to April 1405 (1404).
посвящённый предмет:
Virgin museum
Peter museum
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