This altarpiece is made up of three panels, with a single man standing in each of the narrow wings to the left and right and a wider panel at the center, which shows a woman holding a baby as twenty-two people look on. The background behind all the people is gold, and the top of each panel comes to a rounded, pointed arch under a second taller, sharper point. Spiraling columns frame the left and right sides, and rows of semicircular shapes, like inverted scallops, run inside the curving arches. In the central panel, the woman, child, and people around them all have pale skin and blond hair…
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Saint Anthony Abbot [left panel]

painter Puccio di Simone (Florentine, active c. 1330 - 1360)

and painter Allegretto Nuzi (Umbrian, active from c. 1340; died 1373)

1354

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 89.3 x 33.6 cm (35 3/16 x 13 1/4 in.) ; overall (with cradle): 90 × 35.5 × 2.8 cm (35 7/16 × 14 × 1 1/8 in.) ; framed: 123.8 x 45.7 x 8.3 cm (48 3/4 x 18 x 3 1/4 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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