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Saints Peter, Romuald, Catherine of Alexandria and Jerome: Main Tier Right Panel

Giovanni dal Ponte (1385–c.1437)

The National Gallery, London

Saints Peter, Romuald, Catherine of Alexandria and Jerome: Main Tier Right Panel

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These four saints come from a large polyptych (multi-panelled altarpiece) made for the high altar of the church of San Giovanni Evangelista, in Pratovecchio, Tuscany. Their costumes and attributes -- objects they were particularly associated with, often connected with their martyrdom -- tell us who they are. We see saints who were significant for the whole of the Camaldolese Order, the rule which the nuns at San Giovanni followed, and those of more local importance.The eleventh-century Saint Romuald, in white, was the founder of the Order, while Saint Catherine was an early Christian virgin who had refused to marry because she claimed to be married to Christ: a role model for all nuns. Saint Jerome, a desert hermit here dressed as a cardinal, holds a book whose text exhorts penance for sins, perhaps a reference to a political tussle between San Giovanni and its sister house in Arezzo, whose nuns had fought for self governance -- but lost.

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Title

Saints Peter, Romuald, Catherine of Alexandria and Jerome: Main Tier Right Panel

Date

about 1420-4?

Medium

Egg tempera on wood

Measurements

H 146 x W 66.2 cm

Accession number

NG580.3

Acquisition method

Bought, 1857

Work type

Painting

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Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England

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Artist or maker

Giovanni dal Ponte

1385–c.1437

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