Bicci di Lorenzo, St. Nicholas Providing Dowries



1433-35
Tempera and gold on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 88.3.89
Gift of Coudert Brothers, 1888

One of the Metropolitan’s two predella panels executed for the monastery of San Niccolo in Cafaggio, Florence, designed after an altarpiece by Gentile da Fabriano of 1425.  The other panel is St. Nicholas Resuscitating Three Youths.

More of St. Nicholas

Photographed at the Metropolitan by Richard Stracke