Santi Girolamo e Giovanni Battista
This picture and 'Pope Gregory the Great (?) and Matthias' are two sides of a single panel that was divided in two. The panel had been one part of a double-sided triptych in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome. The other side panel of the triptych, also sawn in half, showed Saints Peter and Paul on one side and Saint John the Evangelist (?) and Saint Martin on the other. One central panel was of the Assumption of the Virgin while the other showed the Miracle of the Snow, and the founding of Santa Maria Maggiore.
Saint John's cross is unusual in that it is attached to a column. This may be a reference to the Colonna arms ('colonna' meaning column in Italian). Pope Martin V, who died in 1431, was a member of the Colonna family and he may have been involved in the commission of this work.
Masolino probably completed the altarpiece after Masaccio's death in Rome in 1428.
COMMENTI
LE OPERE
Cappella Castiglioni
1428 | Affresco
Trinità
1426 | Affresco
Cacciata dal Paradiso terrestre
1425 | Affresco
Il pagamento del tributo
1425 | Affresco
Storie di San Giuliano
1425 | Tempera su tavola | 24 x 43 cm.
Crocefissione
1426 | Tempera su tavola
Trittico di san Giovenale
1422 | Tempera su tavola
Madonna del solletico
1426 | Tempera su tavola | 18 x 24 cm.
Santi Girolamo e Giovanni Battista
1423 | Olio e tempera su tavola | 55 x 114 cm.
Sant'Anna Matterza
1424 | Tempera su tavola | 103 x 175 cm.
