Saint Thomas Aquinas Submitting His Office of Corpus Domini to Pope Urban IV

Gallery 310, European Art 1100-1500, third floor (Giorgi Family Foundation Gallery)

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Saint Thomas Aquinas Submitting His Office of Corpus Domini to Pope Urban IV

c. 1403

Taddeo di Bartolo (Italian (active Siena and environs, Perugia, Pisa, and Genoa), first documented 1383, died 1422)

In 1264, Pope Urban IV asked Thomas Aquinas to write a special liturgy for Corpus Christi, a new holiday that celebrated Christ's bodily presence in the bread and wine of the Roman Catholic Mass. Here Thomas kneels, with his manuscript in his hands, before the pope.

Gallery 310, European Art 1100-1500, third floor (Giorgi Family Foundation Gallery)

Object Details

Title:

Saint Thomas Aquinas Submitting His Office of Corpus Domini to Pope Urban IV

Date:

c. 1403

Artist:

Taddeo di Bartolo (Italian (active Siena and environs, Perugia, Pisa, and Genoa), first documented 1383, died 1422)

Medium:

Tempera and tooled gold on panel with vertical grain

Dimensions:

16 x 14 1/8 inches (40.6 x 35.9 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Accession Number:

Cat. 101

Geography:

Made in Siena, Italy, Europe

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