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Filippo Fasanini, who died in 1531, instructed the executors of his will to commission this altarpiece for his chapel dedicated to Saint Philip and Saint James in S. Domenico, Bologna. It is signed on the throne’s plinth: IERONIMVS. TREVISIVS. P.[INXIT] (‘Girolamo of Treviso painted this’). Filippo Fasanini was a professor of rhetoric and poetry at the University of Bologna. His will stipulated that the altarpiece was to represent the Virgin Mary with the infant Christ, Saint Joseph, Saint Philip, Saint James and his own likeness taken from nature. Filippo is kneeling in his black academic gown at the bottom left. His sunken features suggest that his portrait was painted from a death mask – a plaster cast of the face of the corpse. The patron’s name saint, Philip, is probably the one presenting him to the Virgin and Christ.
Title
The Madonna and Child with Angels, Saints and a Donor
Date
about 1529-31
Medium
Oil on wood
Measurements
H 225.4 x W 147.3 cm
Accession number
NG623
Acquisition method
Bought, 1859
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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