St Nicholas Forgiving the Consul

1300 · Chapel of St Nicholas, Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi

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Palmerino di Guido was a collaborator of Giotto on the Legend of St Francis in the Upper Church. He executed many of the paintings in the St Nicholas Chapel of the Lower Church. This chapel is located at the end of the transept and it was built by Cardinal Napoleone Orsini at the end of the 13th century as indicated by the coat-of-arms occurring many times on the walls of the chapel.

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About the Artist

Palmerino Di Guido

Italian painter, active in Assisi. He was a collaborator of Giotto on the Legend of St Francis in the Upper Church of San Francesco, and executed many of the paintings in the St Nicholas Chapel of the Lower Church. Palmerino is probably identical with the so-called (Maestro Espressionista di Santa Chiara (Expressionist Master of Santa Chiara), who painted scenes from the life of Santa Chiara in the church dedicated to this saint (Basilica di Santa Chiara, Assisi). Palmerino's son, Guiduccio Palmerucci (1280-c. 1349) was also painter. A Maest fresco commissioned in 1321 for the Salecta Dominorum Consolorum in Gubbio (a room in the old Palazzo dei Consoli, Gubbio), which has been attributed to the Expressionist Master of Santa Chiara, could be the work of Guiduccio.

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