Polyptych of the Coronation of the Virgin The Redeemer Blessing

Andrea di Bartolo e Giorgio di Andrea

Download hi-res image TITLE Polyptych of the Coronation of the Virgin The Redeemer Blessing
AUTHOR Andrea di Bartolo e Giorgio di Andrea
DATE c. 1390 and c. 1415
TECNICA OPERA Mixed techniques on panel
DIMENSIONS cm 160 x 65 tavola centrale, cm 142 x 37 tavole laterali a sinistra, cm 142 x 36 tavole laterali a destra
INVENTORY 6088-609-186-169-599
ROOM III
Work on display

This is a reconstructed polittico, intended to stand on an altar, with various compartments. During the 15th century, the polittico gradually lost ground.First in Florence and then elsewhere the single square panel became fashionable. Andrea di Bartolo was a prolific Siennese painter whose polittico shows the coronation of the Virgin with Saints Catherine, Paul, Peter, and probably Augustine; it comes from the convent of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria in Sant’Angelo in Vado and in 1811 Pinacoteca acquired it as work of an anonymous greek painter. Bernard Berenson attributed the polyptych to Andrea di Bartolo.