ERRI, Bartolomeo degli
(active 1460-1479 in Modena)

St Thomas Aquinas Aided by Sts Peter and Paul

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Tempera on wood, 43 x 31 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This panel belonged to an altarpiece painted for a chapel in the church of San Domenico in Modena. St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) is shown twice in the panel: consulting a book, and seated between Sts Peter and Paul, who miraculously appeared to help him interpret sacred texts.




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