GOZZOLI, Benozzo
(b. ca. 1420, Firenze, d. 1497, Pistoia)

St Nicholas of Tolentino (on the pillar)

1464-65
Fresco
Apsidal chapel, Sant'Agostino, San Gimignano

St Nicholas of Tolentino, who was not canonized until 1446, was one of the most popular saints of the order of Augustinian hermits, which he entered in 1255. The attribute he is holding is a white lily, a symbol of the purity of his mind.




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