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Decorative Border

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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This fragment comes from the border decoration of a large painting in fresco – a technique that involves painting directly onto wet plaster – which showed the fall of Lucifer, the rebel angel who was cast out of heaven. It once decorated a wall of the church of the confraternity of Sant' Angelo in Arezzo. We see two saints in decorative shapes with white borders. The winged saint holding a sword is Michael; the other is Saint Stephen, identifiable by the stone upon his head (he was killed by stoning). Their haloes were originally gilded but now only a tin underlayer remains. The remains of an inscription above the central band refers to a man named Christophanus, a member of the confraternity that commissioned the picture. He might be the small kneeling figure in white in the centre.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

Decorative Border

Date

about 1373-1410

Medium

Fresco transferred to canvas

Measurements

H 55.9 x W 153.7 cm

Accession number

NG1216.2

Acquisition method

Presented by Sir A.H. Layard, 1886

Work type

Painting

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