St Dominic (Cosmè Tura)
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St Dominic is a c. 1475 tempera and gold on panel painting, now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.[1]
It originated in the Canonici collection in Ferrara, from which it was acquired by professor Giuseppe Grassi in 1905. It forms part of a split-up altarpiece and relates to another five fragments of similar dimensions and style, which may have come from a single altarpiece or several. Most art historians assign St Dominic to the San Giacomo in Argenta altarpiece (Mario Salmi, 1957, Nalajoli, 1974) or the altarpiece in Ferrara (Roberto Longhi, 1934, Adolfo Venturi, 1914, and Ricci).[2]
Emma Micheletti relates the work to the same artist's St Anthony of Padua in the Louvre and St James the Great Enthroned in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Caen. Longhi also linked it to St Sebastian (Berlin), St Christopher (Berlin) and the Madonna in the collection of the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, with the Berlin works forming side panels to the Bergamo panel. Monica Molteni (1999) decisively denied the links to the Berlin and Bergamo works, whilst Joseph Manca (2000) also raised doubts over such links, arguing that their supports did not match that of the Paris panel, the nearest in style to the St Dominic.
St Anthony of Padua, Louvre
St James the Great Enthroned, Caen
St Dominic
St Christopher, Berlin
Madonna and Child, Bergamo
St Sebastian, Berlin
References[]
- ^ Gloria Fossi, Uffizi, Giunti, Firenze 2004. ISBN 88-09-03675-1
- ^ "Catalogue entry".
- 1475 paintings
- Paintings in the collection of the Uffizi
- Paintings of Saint Dominic
- Paintings by Cosmè Tura