Gallery 305, European Art 1100-1500, third floor
Main Building
Gallery 305, European Art 1100-1500, third floor
Main Building
This two-sided panel comes from a large altarpiece depicting saints of the Franciscan order. The altarpiece was probably made for a church in the Spanish province of Catalonia.
The Franciscan friar Saint Anthony of Padua holds a chalice with a grapevine, a symbol of the Christian rite of Communion. Saint Anthony died in Padua, Italy, but was originally from Coimbra in Portugal.
Saint Accursius was one of the first Franciscan martyrs. In 1219 he was executed in Morocco for preaching the Christian religion in the main mosque of Marrakech.
Gallery 305, European Art 1100-1500, third floor
Title: | Panel from an Altarpiece Saint Anthony of Padua [this side], Saint Accursius [other side] |
Date: | Early 1490s |
Artist: | Pau Várgos (Spanish (Barcelona), died 1495) |
Medium: | Oil and tooled gold on panel |
Dimensions: | 68 × 39 inches (172.7 × 99.1 cm) |
Classification: | Paintings |
Credit Line: | Purchased with the W. P. Wilstach Fund, the George W. Elkins Fund, and bequest (by exchange) of Anne Thomson in memory of her father, Frank Thomson, and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Clarke Thomson, and with Museum funds, 1993 |
Accession Number: | EW1993-127-3a,b |
Geography: | Made in Barcelona, Spain, Europe |
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Gallery 305, European Art 1100-1500, third floor
Main Building