Benozzo
Gozzoli
(1420-97), Totila Before St. Benedict
Tempera on wood
Metropolitan Museum of
Art, 15.106.4
Rogers Fund, 1915
This episode is recounted in Gregory the Great's Life
of Benedict (cached)
and in the Golden Legend,
where the king's name is given as Attila.
This is one of a set
of four panels in the museum. The others are St.
Zenobius Resuscitating a Dead Child, St.
Peter and Simon Magus, and The
Conversion
of St. Paul.
More of St. Benedict
Photographed at the
Metropolitan by Richard Stracke