St. Roch

Palma il Vecchio (Jacopo Negretti)

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AUTHOR Palma il Vecchio (Jacopo Negretti)
DATE 1520 - 2
OBJECT TYPE AND MATERIAL Oil on panel
DIMENSIONS cm 143 x 61
INVENTORY 85
ROOM XVIII
Work on display
Donation

This panel, together with St. Helen and St. Constantine and St. Sebastian comprised the lower register of a polyptych, testifying to the genre’s survival well into the 16th century when time sacred conversations in a single space become the norm
The presence in the central panel of the Cross, together with the Emperor Constantine and his mother Helen who discovered the True Cross in Jerusalem, reveal that the polyptych was painted for the church of Santa Croce in Gerosa, near Bergamo.