Saint Nicholas Providing Dowries. Artist: Bicci di Lorenzo (Italian, Florence 1373-1452 Florence). Dimensions: 12 x 22 1/4 in. (30.5 x 56.5 cm). Date: 1433-35.In the top scene, Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra (270-343)--the original "Saint Nick"--is shown throwing three balls of gold through a window, providing the dowry of three poverty-stricken maidens. In the other painting he resuscitates three youths who had been pickled by an innkeeper during a famine (a story treated by Benjamin Britten in his 1948 cantata, <i>Saint Nicholas</i>).The panels formed the base (predella) of an altarpiece painted between 1433 and 1435 for a monastery in Florence. Their design was based on an altarpiece by Gentile da Fabriano of 1425. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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Saint Nicholas Providing Dowries. Artist: Bicci di Lorenzo (Italian, Florence 1373-1452 Florence). Dimensions: 12 x 22 1/4 in. (30.5 x 56.5 cm). Date: 1433-35.In the top scene, Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra (270-343)--the original "Saint Nick"--is shown throwing three balls of gold through a window, providing the dowry of three poverty-stricken maidens. In the other painting he resuscitates three youths who had been pickled by an innkeeper during a famine (a story treated by Benjamin Britten in his 1948 cantata, <i>Saint Nicholas</i>).The panels formed the base (predella) of an altarpiece painted between 1433 and 1435 for a monastery in Florence. Their design was based on an altarpiece by Gentile da Fabriano of 1425. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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