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). ...

This panel is one of three in the Collection which were probably part of the predella of an altarpiece of the Coronation of the Virgin, commissioned by Camaldolese monks. They illustrate the life of Saint Benedict (about 480
- 547) whose rule the Camaldol
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This painting is possibly part of a predella, or lower section of an altarpiece. The main part of the story depicted here is told in the ' Golden Legend' where the young Saint Benedict is receiving food from Saint Romanus. The angel is probably a fragment ...

It is difficult to identify the incident represented in this painting. One possible explanation is that it is intended to illustrate the dialogue between the Virgin & Saint Bernard about Christ's Passion as told in Saint Bernard's book: ' Liber de Passio ...

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 ...

This & Pordenone's ' Saint Louis of Toulouse' were part of a ceiling in the Scuola di S. Francesco, the headquarters of a confraternity attached to the church of the Frari in Venice. At the corners were paintings of the Four Evangelists (Museum of Fine A ...