Quaratesi Polyptych

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Year 1425 Artist Gentile da Fabriano Period International Gothic		Medium Tempera on panel Created 1425 Genre Christian art

Locations National Portrait Gallery, London, National Gallery, London Similar Gentile da Fabriano artwork, International Gothic artwork, Christian art

The Quaratesi Polyptych is a painting by the Italian late medieval painter Gentile da Fabriano, now divided between several museums.

It was painted by the artist for the Quaratesi family's chapel in the Church of San Niccolò Oltrarno, perhaps not a long time after the Strozzi Altarpiece. Today four of the five original compartments (including the painted cusp) are known, as well as some parts of the predella (which has scenes of the Life of St. Nicholas):

Madonna with Child and Angels with, in the cups, Angels and a medallion of the Redeemer (central compartment), 139.9 x 83 cm, The Royal Collection, Hampton Court, stored at the National Gallery, London

St. Mary Magdalene, with cusp (left compartment), 200 x 60 cm, Uffizi, Florence

St. Nicholas of Bari, with cusp (left compartment), 200 x 60 cm, Uffizi, Florence

St. John the Baptist, with cusp (right compartment), 200 x 60 cm, Uffizi, Florence

St. George, with cusp (right compartment), 200 x 60 cm, Uffizi, Florence

Predella

Birth of St. Nicholas, 36.5 x 36.5 cm, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

The Gift of St. Nicholas, 36.5 x 36.5 cm, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

St. Nicholas Saving a Ship from the Tempest, 36.5 x 36.5 cm, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

St. Nicholas Saves Three Youths from the Brine, 36.5 x 36.5 cm, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

Miracle of the Pilgrims at St. Nicholas' Tomb, 36.5 x 36.5 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

References

Quaratesi Polyptych Wikipedia

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