A tempera on wood panel showing Thomas Aquinas aided by Peter and Paul, painted by the Italian artist Bartolomeo degli Erri, active 1460 to 1479 in Modena. The panel belongs to a devotional cycle illustrating episodes from Aquinas's legendary life, likely his miraculous understanding of scripture. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 23.140, given through the Fletcher Fund in 1923.
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Subject Matter
Depicted SubjectThe scene illustrates an episode recorded in Aquinas's first biography, written by the Dominican prior William of Tocco, and later retold in the Golden Legend: while at prayer over a passage of scripture he could not interpret, the apostles Peter and Paul are said to have appeared to him and explained its meaning, an episode later credited with confirming his authority as a teacher of doctrine. 1 Physical Form
MediumTempera on wood, Bartolomeo degli Erri, Metropolitan Museum of Art 23.140 1 Medium (class) Connections
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Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
Source Saint Thomas Aquinas Aided by Saints Peter and Paul, accession 23.140 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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The panel's directly named subject per the museum's own title and its own linked Wikidata identifier, shown aided by Peter and Paul in a scene from the legendary vision tradition the corroborating Wikipedia record independently describes for him.
Source Saint Thomas Aquinas Aided by Saints Peter and Paul, accession 23.140 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Additional Source Thomas Aquinas (Wikipedia)
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1. Saint Thomas Aquinas Aided by Saints Peter and Paul, accession 23.140 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of Artcatalogue record, medium/object-type descriptionQuote, catalogue record, medium/object-type description
A tempera on wood panel showing Thomas Aquinas aided by Peter and Paul, painted by the Italian artist Bartolomeo degli Erri, active 1460 to 1479 in Modena.
Thomas Aquinas (Wikipedia)
WikipediaDepicts: Thomas AquinasQuote, Depicts: Thomas Aquinas
Aquinas's earliest biographers record that the crucified Christ spoke to him from an image, praising his writing on the faith.
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