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One of Three Predella Panels: Tobias and the Angel, Cosmas and Saint Damian
One of Three Predella Panels: Tobias and the Angel, Cosmas and Saint Damian
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One of Three Predella Panels: Tobias and the Angel, Cosmas and Saint Damian

Artist (Italian, about 1418–1492)
Datelater 1400s
Mediumoil on panel
Dimensionspanel: 17.8 x 40.5 cm (7 x 15 15/16 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineTheodore T. and Mary G. Ellis Collection
Terms
Object number1940.35.1
DescriptionThree Predella Panel
Label TextNeri di Bicci was the son of a painter, Bicci di Lorenzo. He had an active workshop in Florence for a relatively long period of time. His work was strongly influenced by that of Filippo Lippi. The panels depict the stories of Tobias and the Angel with Saints Cosmas and Damian (left); the Nativity (center); and Saints Ursula and Jerome (right). Although the panels are now separate and framed, they may originally have been a single panel with only painted divisions between the scenes. It is not known from what altarpiece the predella comes.ProvenanceBequeathed to the Worcester Art Museum as part of the Theodore T. and Mary G. Ellis Collection, 1940.
On View
On view
Scene from the Lives of Sts. Cosmas and Damian: Stoning
Alvaro Pirez
first half of the 15th century
Scene from the Lives of Sts. Cosmas and Damian: Beheading
Alvaro Pirez
first half of the 15th century
Saint Lucy
Andrea di Bartolo
late 14th century–early 15th century
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Andrea di Bartolo
late 14th century–early 15th century
The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus
Piero di Cosimo
about 1499
Panels from the Wings of a Triptych
Paolo Veneziano
mid-14th century
The Return of Tobias
Cristóbal de Villalpando
about 1700–1714
A Lady
Lorenzo di Ottavio Costa
about 1510