Saint John the Baptist and Saint James the Great

1423-1424 (Renaissance)

76 cm 102 cm 3.8 cm

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This painting shows Saints John the Baptist (left) and James the Great (right). John wears his typical camel skin shirt and holds a scroll reading “Behold the Lamb of God,” (in Latin, “Ecce Agnus Dei”), the phrase he famously used to present his cousin, Jesus Christ, to the pu...

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Commissioned by Niccolò Ardinghelli for his family's burial chapel in the church of Santa Trinita, Florence, in 1423. Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 25; 1897 catalogue: no. 44, as Andrea Orcagna]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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