Saint Florian Taking Leave of the Monastery

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Saint Florian Taking Leave of the Monastery
Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Saint Florian Taking Leave of the Monastery is an oil-on-panel painting by German artist

Uffizi Gallery, in Florence.[1]

History

The work, analogous to the canvas

Národní Galerie, in Prague and the other is held in a private collection in Berlin. The complete work was to resemble the Polyptych of the Stories of Saint Sebastian and of the Passion, painted by the same artist in Regensburg, for the collegiate church of Linz, in 1518.[2][3]

Description

Inn River
. As a legend tells that he was able to extinguish a fire with a single bucket of water, he was often represented as a protector against fire.

In the painting, the young saint, dressed as a pilgrim, leaves the city, taking leave with the local dignitaries. A procession accompanies him. At the left is the arch of the city, and in the distance a mountain landscape, lit by an extraordinary light. The story of the painting, inspired by Paracelsus, is easily readable, due to the popular and catchy style.[4]

Provenance

The two Florentine paintings came to the Uffizi from the Spannocchi collection of the Pinacoteca Nazionale, in Siena, in an exchange that took place in 1914, to enrich the Northern Renaissance collection of the museum.[5]

References

  1. ^ Albrecht Altdorfer, Virtual Uffizi Gallery
  2. ^ St Florian Taking Leave of the Monastery, Web Gallery of Art
  3. ^ Gloria Fossi, La Galerie Des Offices, Giunti, Florence, 2004 (French), ISBN 88-09-03675-1
  4. ^ Gloria Fossi, La Galerie Des Offices, Giunti, Florence, 2004 (French), ISBN 88-09-03675-1
  5. ^ Gloria Fossi, La Galerie Des Offices, Giunti, Florence, 2004 (French), ISBN 88-09-03675-1
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