This altarpiece depicts Saint Roch (ca. 1348–1376/79), known as a plague saint for his miracles in curing the sick. He became a popular figure in art following the Black Death in the fourteenth century and the Italian plague outbreak of 1477–79
sculture et altre cose notabili . . . . 1603, c. 20 [Biblioteca Comunale, Bologna, Ms B
From the high altar of the Cistercian abbey, Lichtenthal, near Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg; Dutch or German Private Collection ; [ Sotheby’s, London (July 28, 1939, no. 103) ] ; [ John Hunt, Ireland (1939–sold 1952)]
Oud Holland 52 (1935). p. 29. Huth, Hans.
African king Jugurtha, in chains, walking before him, an event that took place in 104 B.C
B. Tiepolo: la sua vita e le sue opere.
In this painting, the Madonna and Child are flanked by Saint Francis to the left, shown in the gray habit of the Franciscan order and holding the cross within his stigmata-marked hand, and Saint Jerome to the right, attired in the red robes of a cardinal, signifying his service to Pope Damasus I (305–384 CE)
by 1834–d. 1849); his son, principe Maffeo Barberini Colonna di Sciarra, Rome (b.
From the north nave of the former Carmelite church at Boppard-am-Rhein in Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis), near Koblenz, Germany.; Count Hermann Pückler, Muskau (from 1818) ; [ Frédéric Spitzer Austrian, Paris (from at least 1875–sold 1893)] ; his posthumous sale, Chevallier & Mannheim, Paris (April 17–June 16, 1893, no
Vitraux 7, p. 124, ill. in text.
Inscription: Inscribed: (reverse, in a later hand) Ambrogio Borgognone fe.; (on Christ’s halo) IESVS CRISTV[S]; (on Virgin’s halo) [BE?]NIGNA; (on hem of Virgin’s cloak) NOMEN DOM[I]NI
Milan, 1936, p. 85. Harry B. Wehle.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929. p. 40.
Said to be from Idalium, Cyprus (A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection…, 1903, vol. 3, pt. 2, pl. LXXVIII, 1) Between 1865 and 1872, excavated in Idalium, Cyprus, by Luigi Palma di Cesnola; afterwards, collection of L
History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to the Sixteenth Century, Vol. 1. p.
Rorimer, James J., and Margaret B. Freeman.
