''Saint Dominic'' is a painting in tempera and gold on panel of c. 1475 by

Cosmè Tura Cosmè Tura (; 1495), also known as Il Cosmè or Cosimo Tura, was an Italian early-Renaissance (or Quattrocento) painter and considered one of the founders of the School of Ferrara (Painting), School of Ferrara. He provided a great contribution to ...

, now in the

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. It originated in the Canonici collection in

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, from which it was acquired by Professor Giuseppe Grassi in

1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...

. It forms part of a split-up altarpiece and relates to another five fragments of similar dimensions and style, which may have come from a single altarpiece or several. Most art historians assign the ''Saint Dominic'' to the San Giacomo in Argenta altarpiece (

Mario Salmi Mario Salmi (San Giovanni Valdarno, 14 June 1889 – Rome, 16 November 1980) was an Italian art historian and art critic who specialized in Romanesque architecture, Tuscan sculpture and the early Italian Renaissance. Life and work After completin ...

, 1957; Nalajoli, 1974) or the San Luca in Borgo altarpiece in Ferrara (

Roberto Longhi Roberto Longhi (28 December 1890 – 3 June 1970) was an Italian academic, art historian, and curator. The main subjects of his studies were the painters Caravaggio and Piero della Francesca. Early life and career Longhi was born in December 1 ...

, 1934;

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, 1914; and Ricci). Emma Micheletti relates the work to the same artist's ''Saint Anthony of Padua'' in the

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and ''Saint James the Great Enthroned'' in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in

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. Longhi also linked it to ''Saint Sebastian'' (Berlin), ''Saint Christopher'' (Berlin) and the ''Madonna'' in the collection of the

Accademia Carrara The Accademia Carrara, (), officially Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo, is an art gallery and an academy of fine arts in Bergamo, in Lombardy in northern Italy. The art gallery was established in about 1780 by , a Bergamasco collecto ...

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, with the Berlin works forming side panels to the Bergamo panel. Monica Molteni (1999) decisively denied the links to the Berlin and Bergamo works, while Joseph Manca (2000) also raised doubts over such links, arguing that their supports did not match that of the Paris panel, the nearest in style to the ''Saint Dominic''. File:Cosmè tura, sant'antonio da padova, louvre.jpg, ''Saint Anthony of Padua'', Louvre File:Cosmè tura, St James the Great.jpg, ''Saint James the Great Enthroned'', Caen File:Cosmè Tura 010.jpg, ''Saint Dominic'' File:Cosmè tura, san cristoforo.jpg, ''Saint Christopher'', Berlin File:Cosmè tura, madonna di Bergamo.jpg, ''Madonna and Child'', Bergamo File:Cosmè tura, san sebastiano.jpg, ''Saint Sebastian'', Berlin

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Dominic (Tura) 1475 paintings Paintings in the Uffizi Tura Paintings by Cosmè Tura