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Filippino Lippi, Crucifixion with the Virgin and St Francis
Read more...Filippino Lippi painted this altarpiece around 1498–1500 for the funerary chapel of Francesco Valori in the Church of San Procolo in Florence. The Valori family was close to the Medici and prominent in Florentine politics for five generations. Francesco Valori was Gonfaloniere of Justice in 1497 and an influential supporter of Girolamo Savonarola. He was beheaded in April 1498, close to the Churc...
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Pacino di Bonaguida, Altarpiece with St Nicholas, St John the Evangelist and St Proculus
Read more...Pacino di Bonaguida was an Italian painter and illuminator who spent his entire career in Florence and was active from 1302 to 1340. In addition to altarpieces, he painted miniatures and decorations ...
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Madonna and Child with St Nicholas and St Proculus
Read more...Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Madonna and Child with St Nicholas and St Proculus is also known as the San Procolo Triptych, because it was specially painted as an altarpiece for the Church of San Procolo in ...
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Four Stories from the Life of St Nicholas
Read more...Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Four Stories from the Life of St Nicholas was painted around 1330. It originally hung in the Church of San Procolo in Florence, where it was seen by Giorgio Vasari in the mid-si...
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Lorenzo Monaco, Annunciation Triptych
Read more...Lorenzo Monaco’s Annunciation with St Catherine, St Anthony Abbot, St Proculus and St Francis is painted in the International Gothic style and was commissioned for the Church of San Procolo in Floren...
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