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Scenes from the Life of St. Columba

Technical Details
  • Title
    Scenes from the Life of St. Columba
  • Author
    Giovanni Baronzio
  • Year
    1345 - 50
  • Dimensions
    cm 53 x 55
  • Inventory
    2345 - 2346 - 2347
  • Room
    II

These panels show three scenes from the life of St. Columba. In the first she defends her Christian faith in front of the emperor Aurelian, in the second she tames the bear brought to kill her and the bear, shown as a kind of teddy bear, attacks the man who had brought him. In the end, the only option is to behead her. Baronzio is considered the most famous painter of 14th century Rimini, and the panels, painted around 1345, may have belonged to an altarpiece of the Cathedral of Rimini.

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