FERRARI, Defendente
(b. ca. 1485, Chivasso, d. after 1540)

Polyptych

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Tempera on panel
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

The central panel depicts St lvo Collecting the Pleas of the Poor; the side panels show the Mass of St Gregory (left) and St John the Evangelist at Patmos. In the centre of the upper register is the Holy Family flanked by St Michael (left) and St Catherine (right). At top is the face of Christ with carved Annunciation figures. The small predella panels depict stories of St Mary Magdalene and St Ivo.