In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
These panels depicting Saints Anthony the Abbot and Michael originally flanked a central scene of the Madonna and Child with Angels, now lost, to form a triptych. Giovanni di Cosimo de’Medici of Florence commissioned the ensemble in 1457 as a gift to Alfonso V of Aragon. Fra Filippo Lippi, a Carmelite friar and one of the great masters of early Renaissance Florence, depicted realistic, weighty figures in a three-dimensional space using a system of linear perspective, inspired partly by Masaccio’s Brancacci Chapel, and reflected in the background architecture. Saint Anthony the Abbot rejected all earthly possessions in pursuit of a contemplative life in the desert. He is generally regarded as the founder of monasticism and is depicted wearing a monk’s habit. Saint Michael’s sword and shield refer to his role as heaven’s defender against evil.
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Virgin and Child with Angels
Pair of Panels from a Triptych: The Archangel Michael and St
Panel from a Triptych: St. Anthony Abbot
Madonna and Child
The Annunciation
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors
Saints Augustine and Francis, a Bishop Saint, and Saint Bene
Master of Belmonte — Saint Michael
Neri di Bicci — The Archangel Raphael and Tobias
Simone Martini — Saint Ansanus
Francesco del Cossa — Saint Florian
anonymous — Saint Sebastian
Andrea di Bartolo — Saints Anthony Abbot and Ansano
Sandro Botticelli — Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) — Saint Louis
Gherardo Starnina (Italian, c. 1360–before 1413) — Madonna a
Niccolò di Liberatore — Saint Michael Weighing Souls
Battista di Biagio Sanguigni (Italian, active 1393–1451) — V
Lorenzo di Niccolò — Saint Lawrence Intercedes for the Soul