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Saint Lucy, c. 1473-74. Francesco Del Cossa. #francescodelcossa #ngadc #myngadc (at National Gallery of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYk8bN1tiWamLVJ6mNMdqalHbmeed3_B-43i4U0/?utm_medium=tumblr

Out of this world!!! The Griffoni Polyptych at Palazzo Fava, Bologna.              Here • Santa Lucia • by Francesco del Cossa from c. 1472-73.     One of the most important masterpieces of the Renaissance!     The Griffoni Polyptych is a series of sixteen tempera paintings on poplar panels.   This extraordinary altarpiece, dedicated to San Vincenzo Ferrer, was commissioned around 1470-1472 by the Griffoni family to Francesco del Cossa from Ferrara – an artist already active in those years in Bologna – for his chapel in Bologna’s Basilica di San Petronio.     The Polyptych marked the beginning of Francesco del Cossa’s collaboration with the younger Ercole de’ Roberti, thus giving life to one of the most formidable artistic associations of the second half of the Italian fifteenth century. The woodcarver Agostino de Marchi da Crema worked together with the two artists, who created the frame, which has unfortunately been lost today.     The altarpiece was removed and dismembered in 1725 by the will of the new owner of the chapel, the Aldrovandi family. They reduced the painted panels to room pictures and sold them on the market, finally reaching the nine international museums that today are the owners.     This is truly is an extraordinary exhibition, – it reunites for the first time all 16 panels since they were sold in 1725, – it brings back to Bologna an altarpiece that made up one of the most significant masterpieces of Italian Renaissance and artistic culture of its time!       #francescodelcossa #ercolederoberti #art #artist #painter #painting #tempera #panel #polyptych #lucia #martyr #eyes #flower #symbol #saint #altarpiece #religiousart #renaissance #figuration #figurative #figurativeart #theamazingpoppingeyes #palazzofava #bologna     https://www.instagram.com/p/CJowRlOAtyG/?igshid=d2o3n6omlltt