id: 140148 accession number: 1964.150 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.150 updated: 2020-11-04 20:59:13.752000 Pair of Panels from a Triptych: The Archangel Michael and St. Anthony Abbot, 1458. Filippo Lippi (Italian, c. 1406-1469). Tempera on wood panel; framed: 94 x 40 x 6.5 cm (37 x 15 3/4 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 81.3 x 29.8 cm (32 x 11 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1964.150 title: Pair of Panels from a Triptych: The Archangel Michael and St. Anthony Abbot title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1458 creation date earliest: 1458 creation date latest: 1458 current location: 117B Italian Renaissance creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Florence, 15th century technique: tempera on wood panel department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Medieval Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Filippo Lippi (Italian, c. 1406-1469) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 94 x 40 x 6.5 cm (37 x 15 3/4 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 81.3 x 29.8 cm (32 x 11 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1964) opening date: 1965-01-01T05:00:00 Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 1-31, 1965). title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage opening date: 1971-10-29T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 1971-January 2, 1972). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Condessa Pacheco, Madrid (sold 1871); Sir Francis Cook, Doughty House, Richmond (1871, sold by family 1964); (Rosenberg & Steibel) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: These panels depicting Saints Anthony the Abbot and Michael originally flanked a central scene of the Madonna and Child with Angels, now lost, to form a triptych. Giovanni di Cosimo de’Medici of Florence commissioned the ensemble in 1457 as a gift to Alfonso V of Aragon. Fra Filippo Lippi, a Carmelite friar and one of the great masters of early Renaissance Florence, depicted realistic, weighty figures in a three-dimensional space using a system of linear perspective, inspired partly by Masaccio’s Brancacci Chapel, and reflected in the background architecture. Saint Anthony the Abbot rejected all earthly possessions in pursuit of a contemplative life in the desert. He is generally regarded as the founder of monasticism and is depicted wearing a monk’s habit. Saint Michael’s sword and shield refer to his role as heaven’s defender against evil. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Berenson, Bernard. I disegni dei pittori fiorentini. Milano: Electa editrice, 1961. page number: Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 129; Reproduced: vol. 3, fig. 175 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 79 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n103 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 79 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n103 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 90 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n110 Boskovits, Miklós, ed. Italian Paintings from the 13th to 15th Century. Firenze, Italy: Polistampa, 2009. page number: Mentioned: p. 155 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.150/1964.150_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.150/1964.150_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.150/1964.150_full.tif