Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 2 pages
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Source Description
These panels are fragments from the lower section of a large altarpiece that showed a group of saints looking up at the Madonna and Child seated on a bank of clouds and crowned by two angels. The altarpiece, which bore the signature of Innocenzo da Imola and the date 1534, originally stood over the high altar of the church of San Mattia in Bologna. From left to right the saints are Dominic, Matthias, Paul, John the Evangelist and Jerome. A figure of Saint Peter originally stood next to Matthias but was painted out sometime in the 19th century, probably because it was too damaged. The fragment with the Madonna and Child is now in a private collection. The altarpiece also included a predella, or horizontal base, illustrated with various scenes from the life of Christ and several saints. Three of these panels are in private collections in Bologna; a fourth is in the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
16397
label
St. Dominic and St. Matthias; St. Paul, St. John the Evangelist and St. Jerome
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
16397
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
St. Dominic and St. Matthias; St. Paul, St. John the Evangelist and St. Jerome
description
These panels are fragments from the lower section of a large altarpiece that showed a group of saints looking up at the Madonna and Child seated on a bank of clouds and crowned by two angels. The altarpiece, which bore the signature of Innocenzo da Imola and the date 1534, originally stood over the high altar of the church of San Mattia in Bologna. From left to right the saints are Dominic, Matthias, Paul, John the Evangelist and Jerome. A figure of Saint Peter originally stood next to Matthias but was painted out sometime in the 19th century, probably because it was too damaged. The fragment with the Madonna and Child is now in a private collection. The altarpiece also included a predella, or horizontal base, illustrated with various scenes from the life of Christ and several saints. Three of these panels are in private collections in Bologna; a fourth is in the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
provenance
The Church of San Mattia, Bologna, 1530-1535, by commission [high altar until 1585; 7th altar until around 1870]; Marquess Filippo Marignoli, Rome and Spoleto, until 1898 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Marquess Francesco Marignoli, 1898 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, 1899 [mode of acquisition unknown] [1900 catalogue supplement: no. 12]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1534 (Renaissance)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
panel paintings
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
155.7
height
47.5
depth
1
dimensionsRaw
St. Paul, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Jerome painted surface H: 61 5/16 x W: 18 11/16 x Approx. D excluding cradle: 3/8 in. (155.7 x 47.5 x 1 cm); St. Dominic and St. Matthias painted surface H: 61 1/4 x W: 18 3/4 x Approx. D excluding cradle: 3/8 in. (155.5 x 47.7 x 1 cm)
Source extras
med
oil on wood panel
creator_ids
4004
collection_ids
REN
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
mediaId
990ee6f801e11631
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no
seq
2
type
photo
mediaId
5c82e48cdd571437
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no