Art Institute of Chicago
The Baptism of Christ
Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci; Italian, 1445/46-1523)
- Date
- 1500–05
- Medium
- Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
These four panels , together with another one depicting the Resurrection (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), once constituted a predella—a series of small pictures, often narrative scenes, forming the base of an altarpiece. These predella scenes depict moments when Jesus’s divine nature was revealed: at his birth, at his baptism, during his conversation at a well with a Samarian woman, at his res-urrection, and through his appearance to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection. The painting that once surmounted the predella as the focal point of the altarpiece has not been identified.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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