VIVARINI, Bartolomeo
(b. ca. 1440, Murano, d. ca. 1499, Murano)

St Roch and the Angel

1480
Panel, 138 x 59 cm
Sant'Eufemia, Venice

This work is noted for its landscape which acts as a backdrop to the lively figures of the saint and the angel, painted on a golden background.

According to nineteenth-century sources, the panel once bore the inscription: BARTHOLOMEUS VIVARINUS PINXIT 1480.