Friday, August 17, 2018

Three Renaissance Altarpieces (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Vittore Crivelli
Altarpiece
St Bonaventure, St John the Baptist with Ludovico Euffreducci
Virgin and Child enthroned
St Francis of Assisi, St Louis of Toulouse
1481
tempera on panels
Philadelphia Museum of Art

These are the principal panels of a large altarpiece made for the Euffreducci family's chapel in the church of San Francesco in Fermo, Italy.  Originally the altarpiece consisted of several tiers that were placed in a single frame.  The present frames date to the late 1800s.

– curator's notes from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Vittore Crivelli
Altarpiece
Virgin and Child enthroned
1481-
tempera on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Vittore Crivelli
Altarpiece
St Bonaventure, St John the Baptist with Ludovico Euffreducci
1481-
tempera on panels
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Vittore Crivelli
Altarpiece
St Francis of Assisi, St Louis of Toulouse
1481
tempera on panels
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Master of Hoogstraeten Altarpiece
Altarpiece
Scenes from the Infancy of Christ
ca. 1500-1520
oil on panels
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Master of Hoogstraeten Altarpiece
Altarpiece
Scenes from the Infancy of Christ
Annunciation
ca. 1500-1520
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Master of Hoogstraeten Altarpiece
Altarpiece
Scenes from the Infancy of Christ
Nativity
ca. 1500-1520
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Master of Hoogstraeten Altarpiece
Altarpiece
Scenes from the Infancy of Christ
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1500-1520
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Master of Hoogstraeten Altarpiece
Altarpiece
Scenes from the Infancy of Christ
Presentation in the Temple
ca. 1500-1520
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Master of Hoogstraeten Altarpiece
Altarpiece
Scenes from the Infancy of Christ
Flight into Egypt
ca. 1500-1520
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Josse Lieferinxe
Altarpiece fragment
St Sebastian destroying the Idols
ca. 1497
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Four panels from the altarpiece of the Saint Sebastian Chapel of Notre-Dame-des-Accoules, Marseilles, made in collaboration with Bernardino Simondi.  Sebastian, head of the Roman troops under the last pagan emperors, converted to Christianity about 283.  In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance his name was invoked against disease, particularly the bubonic plague, because he had survived the torture of the emperor's archers.

– curator's notes from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Josse Lieferinxe
Altarpiece fragment
St Sebastian pierced by Arrows
ca. 1497
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Josse Lieferinxe
Altarpiece fragment
St Sebastian succoured by St Irene
ca. 1497
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Josse Lieferinxe
Altarpiece fragment
Martyrdom of St Sebastian
ca. 1497
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art