Retable of Saints Athanasius, Blaise, and Agatha

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1440/45

Master of Riglos (Spanish, active c. 1435–1460)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Master of Riglos
Title: Retable of Saints Athanasius, Blaise, and Agatha
Place: Spain (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1400–1500
Medium: Tempera on panel
Inscriptions: Inscribed: Do / min / e in foro / re tu / o ar / gua / s me (on Saint Athanasius’s book); Quicum / que v[u]l[t] / sal[v]us / es[s]e a[n] / te om / nia o[pus] (on the angel’s book at right); Sal.... (on the angel’s scroll at left)
Dimensions: Christ on the Cross: 69.8 × 81.2 cm (27 1/2 × 32 in.); Coronation of the Virgin: 87.4 × 80.3 cm (34 7/16 × 31 5/8 in.); Scenes from the Life of Saint Blaise: 154.3 × 69.8 cm (60 3/4 × 27 1/2 in.); Saint Athanasius: 128.6 × 82 cm (50 11/16 × 32 5/16 in.); Scenes from the Life of Saint Agatha: 154.5 × 69.8 cm (60 7/8 × 27 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1911.201
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Year Book of the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1924, p. 35.
Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Spanish Painting,, vol. 8, Cambridge, Mass., 1941, pp. 378–80, fig. 169.
Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España, Madrid, 1958, p. 308, no. 2703.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 420.
José Camón Aznar, Pintura medieval española, Summa artis 22, Madrid, 1966,
p. 474.
José Gudiol, Pintura medieval en Aragón, Saragossa, 1971, p. 83, no. 273.
Judith Berg Sobré, Behind the Altar Table: The Development of the Painted Retable in Spain, 1350–1500, Columbia, Mo., 1989, p. 52 n. 12.
Judith Berg Sobré in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 92-95, ill.

Gift of the Antiquarian Society, 1911 [Registrar’s records, Daybook, vol. 5, p. 8].

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