Lorenzo di Credi (c.1459-1537)
Madonna col Bambino, San Giuliano e San Nicola (Madonna and Child surrounded by Saint Julian and Saint Nicolas of Myra)
1494
Oil on wood, 163 x 164 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
In place (cited by Vasari in 1550 and 1568), until 1812; and taken to the Louvre, August 1812 (Preti-Hamard [1999] 24). Main panel of an altarpiece installed on February 20, 1494 in the Mascalzoni chapel of the ancient church of Cestello (since 1628 Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi) in Florence. The predella, with three painted medallions (The Angel and The Virgin of the Annunciation, The Christ of Sorrow), remains in place. (Louvre)