GENTILE DA FABRIANO
(b. ca. 1370, Fabriano Marche, d. 1427, Roma)

Quaratesi Polyptych: Pilgrims at the Tomb of St Nicholas of Bari

1425
Panel, 36 x 35 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

This panel belonged to the predella of the dismembered Quaratesi Polyptych.

It appears that Gentile felt freer to experiment in the minor scenes of a predella than in the main panel of an altarpiece. In this case he shows the interior of a church, which itself was quite a difficult task, with a rather convincing treatment of the space.