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European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection

The Episcopal Procession to Mount Gargano

Panel from an altarpiece; companion to John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Inv. 2100)

Made in León, Spain, Europe

c. 1515

Palaquinos Master, Spanish (active León), active c. 1510 - c. 1520

Tempera and tooled gold on panel
35 1/4 x 31 inches (89.5 x 78.7 cm)

* Gallery 205, European Art 1100-1500, second floor

Inv. 2101

John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Label

A legend about the much-revered Saint Michael Archangel relates how a nobleman ordered his servant to shoot a stray bull on Mount Gargano in southern Italy. The arrow boomeranged and killed the archer. Consulted about this mystery, the local bishop revealed a dream in which the archangel had instructed him to build a church where the bull had strayed.

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