1500 (ca.), Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi), Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: This panel, likely originally part of a daybed or wainscoting for a marriage chamber, belongs to a series illustrating the life of Zenobius, the fifth-century bishop of Florence. Botticelli had come under the influence of Christian reformer Girolamo Savonarola and began painting austere religious narratives with a sense of urgency and foreboding. Here, the saint feverishly rushes across a surreal townscape, raising the dead. At left, he meets a funeral procession and resurrects a dead youth. At center, he raises a man killed while transporting a casket of relics. At right, Saint Eugenius receives water and salt blessed by Zenobius, who then hastens across the square to revive a dead relative.
1500 (ca.), Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi), Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: This panel, likely originally part of a daybed or wainscoting for a marriage chamber, belongs to a series illustrating the life of Zenobius, the fifth-century bishop of Florence. Botticelli had come under the influence of Christian reformer Girolamo Savonarola and began painting austere religious narratives with a sense of urgency and foreboding. Here, the saint feverishly rushes across a surreal townscape, raising the dead. At left, he meets a funeral procession and resurrects a dead youth. At center, he raises a man killed while transporting a casket of relics. At right, Saint Eugenius receives water and salt blessed by Zenobius, who then hastens across the square to revive a dead relative.