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The Holy Family Meets the Family of the Baptist known as Sacra Parentela
- Cola dell’Amatrice, Nicola di Pier Gentile, “Il Filotesio”
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Title
The Holy Family Meets the Family of the Baptist known as Sacra Parentela
Date
Third decade of the 16th century
Artist notes
Amatrice, Rieti 1480 ca. – Ascoli Piceno ante 1550
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
180×158×18 cm
Origin
Acquisition, 2023
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Inventory
OPS 2649
Description
The meeting takes place in an interior characterised by architectural elements reflecting the artist’s classicising culture; he was also an accomplished architect. The central arch frames a section of landscape that shows inspiration from Dürer. This episode, absent from both the New Testament and the apocryphal Gospels, is first narrated in the compilation known as the Meditationes Vitae Christi, attributed in its final form to Giovanni de’ Cauli (14th century).
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