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

St Ambrose Polyptych (central panel)

1477
Tempera on wood, 125 x 47 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

In the central panel the icon-like figure of St. Ambrose sits rigid on his throne while at his feet kneel the members of the confraternity, commissioning the altarpiece, in the proportions dictated by the Mediaeval iconographic tradition.