The Quaratesi altarpiece was painted for the high altar of the Quaratesi chapel in San Niccolò Oltrarno, Florence. Dismembered in the nineteenth century, it originally consisted of the Virgin and Child (now in the National Gallery, London) flanked by Saints Mary Magdalene and Nicholas of Bari on the left, and Saints John the Baptist and George on the right, each on a separate gabled panel. The saints (now in the Uffizi, Florence) stood on a continuous painted pavement, the edges of which are just perceptible on either side of the step of Mary's throne, like figures viewed through the slender columns of an open balcony or loggia. In the same way that Christ with his foreshortened halo leans out of the little roundel in the gable above the Virgin, other figures looked out of roundels above the saints of the main storey. Below, in the predella (now in the Pinacoteca, Vatican, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington)), were lively little scenes of the legendary deeds of Saint Nicholas, titulary saint of the church. All these elements were further harmonised through subtle adjustments of composition and colour. Gentile's sumptuous decorative effects can now best be appreciated in the gold brocade, for the once-brilliant cloth of honour behind the Virgin and Child, painted translucent red over silver leaf and green over gold, has darkened and blotched with age.

Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	Quaratesi Polyptych: Virgin and Child 1425 Egg tempera on poplar, 140 x 83 cm National Gallery, London	708*1600 True Color 164 Kb
	Quaratesi Polyptych: Virgin and Child 1425 Egg tempera on poplar, 140 x 83 cm National Gallery, London	670*1562 True Color 180 Kb
	Quaratesi Polyptych: Four Saints 1425 Tempera on panel, 197 x 57 cm (each) Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence	1145*920 True Color 194 Kb
	Quaratesi Polyptych: St Mary Magdalen 1425 Tempera on panel, 197 x 57 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence	600*1997 True Color 135 Kb
	Quaratesi Polyptych: St Mary Magdalen 1425 Tempera on panel, 197 x 57 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence	600*1950 True Color 182 Kb
	Quaratesi Polyptych: St Nicholas of Bari, 1425 Tempera on panel, 197 x 57 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence	600*2019 True Color 155 Kb
	Quaratesi Polyptych: St John the Baptist 1425 Tempera on panel, 197 x 57 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence	600*2082 True Color 137 Kb
	Quaratesi Polyptych: St George 1425 Tempera on panel, 197 x 57 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence	600*1995 True Color 151 Kb
	Quaratesi Polyptych: The Birth of St Nicholas 1425 Tempera on panel, 37 x 37 cm Pinacoteca, Vatican	1100*1111 True Color 191 Kb
	Quaratesi Polyptych: St Nicholas and Three Poor Maidens 1425 Tempera on panel, 37 x 37 cm Pinacoteca, Vatican	1100*1106 True Color 158 Kb
	Quaratesi Polyptych: St Nicholas Saves a Storm-tossed Ship 1425 Tempera on panel, 37 x 37 cm Pinacoteca, Vatican	1598*1000 True Color 170 Kb
	Quaratesi Polyptych: St. Nicholas Saves Three Youths from the Brine 1425 Tempera on panel, 37 x 37 cm Pinacoteca, Vatican	1100*1114 True Color 155 Kb
	Quaratesi Polyptych: Miracle of the Pilgrims at St Nicholas's Tomb 1425 Tempera on panel, 36 x 35 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington	1100*1127 True Color 193 Kb
	Quaratesi Polyptych: Miracle of the Pilgrims at St Nicholas's Tomb 1425 Tempera on panel, 36 x 35 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington	1000*1027 True Color 191 Kb