Jacopo di Cione and workshop, 'Blessed Paola', about 1365-70
Full title | Blessed Paola |
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Artist | Jacopo di Cione and workshop |
Artist dates | documented 1365; died 1398 -1400 |
Series | The Littleton Pilaster Saints |
Date made | about 1365-70 |
Medium and support | Tempera on panel |
Dimensions | 48.2 × 11.9 × 2.3 cm |
Acquisition credit | On loan from the Rector and Churchwardens of St Mary Magdalene Church, Littleton |
Inventory number | L1080 |
Location | Not on display |
Image copyright | On loan from the Rector and Churchwardens of St Mary Magdalene Church, Littleton, © St Mary Magdalene Church, Littleton |
Collection | Main Collection |
Previous owners |
Beata Paola was a member of the Camaldolese order. This panel was part of a altarpiece which was built for the monastery, Santa Maria degli Angeli. Beata Paola was buried under the high altar. She died in 1368. Her depiction on the pilaster assists the dating of the altarpiece.
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The Littleton Pilaster Saints
These six pilaster panels were discovered wrapped in newspaper in 1995 in the church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Littleton, having been removed during the restoration of the church in the 1970s.
They have recently been cleaned by students at the Courtauld Institute. They are first recorded in the collection of the 19th-century collector, William Young Ottley.
The presence of three saints of the Camaldolese order (reformed Benedictines) suggests they may have come from the monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence. They may have been part of the same altarpiece as the pinnacle panel with Noli me tangere on display in the same room. This in turn has been associated with several fragments in American collections which may have formed part of an altarpiece thought to have come from a chapel dedicated to All Saints in Santa Maria degli Angeli, founded by a notary, Ser Francesco di ser Berto degli Albizzi.
The di Cione brothers, Andrea, Jacopo and Nardo dominated Florentine painting during the second half of the 14th century. Also by Jacopo and his workshop in the National Gallery is the gigantic altarpiece from San Pier Maggiore, Florence, painted 1370-71 showing the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Crucifixion.