In the 17th century, a triptych of 1520 was in the Premonstratensian Abbey of Le Parc, near Louvain. It showed the Virgin & Child, Saints Ambrose & Augustine, & Abbot Ambrose. This work may be the right wing of it, & the donor may thus be Ambrosiu ...

The panel depicting the Virgin & Child was the central panel of a polyptych painted by Crivelli in 1476 as the high altarpiece for San Domenico in Ascoli Piceno, east central Italy. The polyptych was composed of the central panel & eight smaller panel ...

This saint is usually identified as Andrew, despite the fact that his cross is usually X-shaped. This work is part of the same altarpiece as ' Christ rising from the Tomb'; other parts are known to have survived. Other compartments show Saints Peter, Paul, ...

Saint Anthony Abbot (about 251
- 356) is shown in a monastic habit & has a Tau-shaped cross & carries a book. Painted around the
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In the centre are shown the Virgin & Child enthroned. In the lower row, from left to right are Saints Bernardino, Anthony of Padua, Peter Martyr & John the Baptist. In the upper row are Saints Jerome, Catherine, the Pieta, Saint Sebastian & a female ...

A certain Leonardo kicked his mother. When the saint heard of this he said the offending foot deserved to be cut off; Leonardo cut it off, but the saint restored it. This is a preparatory sketch for one of the series of six frescoes about the life of Saint Anthony of Padua (Church of San Antonio de los Portugeses, now Alemanes, Madrid). An exact date for the frescoes is not established; they are thought to be shortly before 1700. ...

Saint Anthony (1195
- 1231) was Portuguese by birth, but spent his later years in Padua. He is said to have had a vision of the
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Saint Bartholomew, at the back, holds a scroll in his left hand & blesses (?) with his right, revealing an ornate garment beneath his cloak. Saint Andrew, at the right, holds a book. The panel formed the third section from the left, below the pinnacles, ...

On the left are a Bishop Saint & Saint Nicholas of Tolentino; on the right, Saints Bartholomew & Monica (the mother of Saint Augustine). The triptych is said to come from the Augustinian church of S. Spirito, Florence; & contains Augustinian saints. ...

The Virgin is seated on a throne, with Saint Francis (identified by his stigmata) presenting a lay donor, & Saint Bernardino (whose facial type was standardised in painting of the period), on either side. Behind the Virgin's throne are four angels. Saint Bartholomew is shown in the right panel with his attribute of a flaying knife, by which he was martyred. Saint John the Baptist on the left holds a glass staff with a cross. His scroll is inscribed with a"ation from the Gospel of Saint John (1: 29, 36): ' Behold the Lamb of God' in abbreviated Latin. This text appears frequently in paintings of the Baptist & alludes to his biblical role as the 'forerunner of Christ'. The painting was previously attributed to Fiorenzo di Lorenzo. It is now attributed to Caporali on account of its closeness in style to a triptych in Perugia, documented as Caporali's work & dated 1475. The central panel is a reworking of a picture by Niccolò di Liberatore dated 1457 (Deruta, Pinacoteca). ...