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 ...

A fragment for the same altarpiece as ' Saints Nicholas of Tolentino & John the Baptist', also in the Collection. The chief compartment of the altarpiece was occupied by Saint Andrew. Here, Peter Martyr holds a martyr's palm, while in his head is the hatchet with which heretics assassinated him. ...

This & the related panel of ' Saint Mary Magdalene' by an unidentified Sienese painter are from the right side of a polyptych. A third panel exists showing Saint Paul (private collection). It has been suggested that the centre panel is the Virgin & Child once in the Palazzo Venezia, Rome (from which the painter takes his name), now in the Galleria Nazionale, Rome. ...

From the church of the Carmine in Florence; probably from the chapel of St Andrew there, founded by Ugolino di Bonsi after 1365. The work is concave, which suggests that it is from a vault. The damaged state of the fragment makes an attribution difficult, & it is not known who was responsible for the frescoes in this chapel. ...

This is an altarpiece of the Camaldolese Order dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. An inscription which is now no longer visible, recorded that it was painted for Filippo Neroni in 1387 (?). It is probable it was the altarpiece of the Stoldi Chapel in Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence. In the centre, Saint John baptizes Christ, with God the Father & the Holy Spirit above. On the wings of the triptych are Saint Peter (left), & Saint Paul (right); the predella, or lower section of the altarpiece, shows episodes from the life of Saint John the Baptist. At the far ends are Saints Benedict (left) & Romuald (right). The pinnacles & side pilasters are missing. ...

Saint Roch, a pilgrim with an ulcerated thigh caused by the plague, was turned out of Piacenza, but his dog brought him a loaf every day & an angel tended his wound. This was the left wing of a triptych in Santa Maria della Scala, Verona. The other wing ...

This roundel probably formed part of a predella. It has been suggested that it could have come from the frame of an altarpiece by Fra Angelico for S. Domenico, Fiesole (see also ' Christ Glorified in the Court of Heaven'). Another roundel of similar dimen ...

The panel is probably part of the predella of Lorenzetti's ' Birth of the Virgin' of 1342, painted for the altar of Saint Sabinus in Siena Cathedral (now in the Museo dell' Opera del Duomo, Siena). It was one of four altarpieces, showing the life of the Virgin, for the altars of the four patron saints of Siena. Pietro Lorenzetti's altarpiece was flanked by figures of Saints Sabinus & Bartholomew & the National Gallery painting was presumably below the first. It apparently illustrates a rare episode showing Venustanius, the Roman Governor of Tuscany, trying to persuade Saints Sabinus, Marcellus & Exuperantius to worship a pagan statue, here apparently Venus since she is shown holding a golden ball representing the apple Paris gave to her. ...

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Sebastian was a centurion sentenced to death by the Emperor Diocletian for his Christian faith. He was shot with arrows & left for dead. The arrows did not kill him & he was eventually stoned to death. His story is told in The Golden Legend. In the 17 ...