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A bishop saint, a mitre on his head and his crosier leaning casually against his shoulder, stands reading a book. This is Saint Nicholas of Bari, an enormously popular saint who is thought to have lived in the fourth century, and about whom almost nothing certain is known. This is the right-hand panel of an altarpiece made by Benvenuto di Giovanni, other parts of which are also in the National Gallery's collection: The Virgin and Child and Saint Peter.Although Benvenuto has here abandoned the pala format, which showed figures in a single unified space and which had become popular during the later fifteenth century, for a more traditional triptych (a painting in three parts), he was still interested in achieving a sense of naturalism and monumentality.
Title
Saint Nicholas
Date
1479
Medium
Tempera on wood
Measurements
H 170 x W 50 cm
Accession number
NG909.3
Acquisition method
Bought, 1874
Work type
Painting
