A tempera and gold ground panel, one wing of a small devotional diptych, showing John the Evangelist seated on the island of Patmos, his traditional place of exile and the setting in which tradition holds he received the visions of the Book of Revelation. Painted by the Florentine artist Pacino di Bonaguida, active 1302 to circa 1340, in the early fourteenth century. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 64.189.3ab, a gift of Irma N. Straus in 1964.
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Devotional FunctionPacino di Bonaguida was among the leading manuscript illuminators and panel painters working in Florence in the generation after Giotto, in the early fourteenth century. A panel of this size and format would originally have formed one wing of a small portable diptych, hinged to a facing scene, most often a Crucifixion or a Madonna and Child, made for an individual owner's private prayer rather than for display in a church. 1 Physical Form
MediumTempera and gold ground on wood, Pacino di Bonaguida, Metropolitan Museum of Art 64.189.3ab 1 Medium (class) Connections
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This source names Patmos directly: "the Evangelist seated on the island of Patmos, his traditional place of exile and the setting in which tradition holds he received the visions of the Book of Revelation."
Source Saint John on Patmos, accession 64.189.3ab (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Source Saint John on Patmos, accession 64.189.3ab (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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John, Figures The panel's directly named subject per the museum's own title, shown on Patmos, the traditional setting of his exile and visionary authorship of Revelation, matching the corroborating Wikipedia record's account of that tradition.
Source Saint John on Patmos, accession 64.189.3ab (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Additional Source John the Apostle (Wikipedia)
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1. Saint John on Patmos, accession 64.189.3ab (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of Artcatalogue record, medium/object-type descriptionQuote, catalogue record, medium/object-type description
A tempera and gold ground panel, one wing of a small devotional diptych, showing John the Evangelist seated on the island of Patmos, his traditional place of exile and the setting in which tradition holds he received the visions of the Book of Revelation.
John the Apostle (Wikipedia)
WikipediaDepicts: JohnQuote, Depicts: John
John was banished by the Roman authorities to the Greek island of Patmos, where, according to tradition, he wrote the Book of Revelation.
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