The Carnesecchi Triptych was an altarpiece of by Masolino,

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and others, depicting the Madonna and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Julian the Hospitaller. It seems to mark the beginning of Masolino and Masaccio's collaboration. Dismembered in the 17th century, it is now totally lost except for panel showing Saint Julian (in the

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of Santo Stefano al Ponte in Florence) and one of the three panels of the predella. That predella panel was long thought to be the painting by Masolino now in the

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in Montauban, but recent expert studies by the

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have instead identified it as a painting by Masaccio in the

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in Florence.

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*http://www.carnesecchi.eu/Maggiore3.htm {{15C-painting-stub 1420s paintings Paintings in the Museo Horne Paintings by Masaccio Paintings of the Madonna and Child Triptychs Paintings of Julian the Hospitaller Paintings of Catherine of Alexandria

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