1468 · Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

The artist conceived this unusual painting as a false polyptych, with the canvas divided into compartments that are separated by illusionistically painted late gothic portal colonettes. This is one of the most significant of the ten or fifteen surviving examples of this technique, which spread through east central Italy and the Veneto during the second half of the fifteenth century. The work has been stylistically connected to Niccol's sojourn in the Marche region, and shows his knowledge of the works of Vivarini.Show more