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European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection The Feast in the House of Simon Predella panel from an altarpiece from the convent of Sant'Elisabetta delle Convertite, Florence, the main panel of which is in the Courtauld Institute Galleries, London (The Lee Collection, 61); companion to three panels in the John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Cat. 44, 46, 47) Made in Florence, Italy, Europec. 1484-91 Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi), Italian (active Florence and Rome), 1445 - 1510 Tempera on panel * Gallery 212, European Art 1100-1500, second floor Cat. 45 John G. Johnson Collection, 1917 |
LabelThis panel, along with Cat. 44, Cat. 46, and Cat. 47, were originally painted on one continuous plank of wood, which formed the predella, or base, of an altarpiece. Botticelli carefully developed the perspective of the architecture and landscape and included painted frames resembling windows around each scene. When the altarpiece was disassembled in the 1800s, the plank was sawed into the four units now in the Museum's collection.Social Tags [?]bread [x] doors [x] kneeling [x] men [x] praying [x] table [x] tablecloth [x] windows [x] [Add Your Own Tags]* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit. |
