A flagellation (above) and an unidentified scene (below). Tempera painting by a Spanish painter, 14th century.

Date:
[between 1300 and 1399?]
Reference:
45989i
Part of:
Sacred subjects: episodes in the New Testament, apostles, saints, and martyrdoms. Tempera and oil paintings, 13-- and ca. 1600.
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Description

From ca. 1600 to ca. 1968 the painting was covered with an outer layer, painted in oil, showing the Annunciation above and Saint Lucy below. In the Annunciation, Gabriel held a rod with a single snake around it, similar to a staff of Aesculapius. This outer layer was destroyed ca. 1968 on the ground that the inner paintings were more interesting from an art-historical point of view

Publication/Creation

[between 1300 and 1399?]

Physical description

1 painting : tempera on wood ; wood 110 x 25.5 cm

Lettering

Inscription (removed): "S: LVCIA:"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 45989i

Notes

One of a set of paintings (for the set see record no. 43771i in the Wellcome Library catalogue). They are painted on four pieces of wood: each piece is painted on both sides. Each side was painted twice: first possibly in the 14th century, in tempera, and then in the 16th or 17th century the tempera paintings were painted over with oil paintings. The inner layer (in tempera) depicts episodes in the New Testament, and the outer layer (in oil) depicts episodes in the New Testament, apostles, saints, and martyrdoms. Some parts of the outer layer have been destroyed

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  • 45989i and 45990i

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