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Saint James and Saint Lucy Predella is a circa 1426 to 1428 series of five tempera on panel paintings by Beato Angelico. Together, and possibly with other unknown paintings, they formed the predella to a single altarpiece, now lost or not clearly identified. They are dated on the basis of stylistic motifs and they cannot be later than 1435, when
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copied ''Naming'' in the predella of his own altarpiece now in the Museo civico in
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History

''Naming'' and ''Funeral'' were recorded in 1778 as belonging to the art dealer Giovanni Vincenzo Frati, who in January that year proposed that Giuseppe Pelli purchase them for the Uffizi, of which Pelli was the director. It has been theorised that there was an unknown altarpiece by Angelico in
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in Florence.


List

*''St James the Great Frees Hermogenes'', 26,8x23,8 cm,
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*''Naming of John the Baptist'', 26x52,9 cm,
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*''Funeral of the Virgin Mary'',
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*''St Dominic Meets St Francis'', 26x26,7 cm, California Palace of the Legion of Honor,
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*''St Lucy's Vision of Saint Agatha'', private collection of Richard L. Feigen,
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Panels

File:'The Apostle Saint James the Greater Freeing the Magician Hermogenes'.jpg, ''The Apostle Saint James the Great Freeing the Magician Hermogenes'' File:Fra Angelico 002.jpg, ''The Naming of St John the Baptist'' File:Angelico, dormitio virginis, philadelphia.JPG, '' Dormition of the Virgin'', Philadelphia File:Angelico, incontro tra i santi domencio e francesco.jpg, ''St Dominic Meets St Francis'' File:Angelico, visione di santa lucia.jpg, ''Vision of Saint Lucy''


References

1428 paintings Paintings by Fra Angelico Paintings depicting John the Baptist Paintings of Francis of Assisi Paintings of Saint Lucy Paintings depicting Agatha of Sicily Paintings of Saint Dominic Paintings of James the Great Paintings of the Virgin Mary Paintings in the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum Paintings in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Paintings in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco