1510 (ca.), Gerard David, Three Legends of St. Nicholas -- National Gallery of Scotland (Edinburgh)
From the museum label: St Nicholas was Archbishop of Myra in Asia Minor in the fourth century. The patron of children, he is better known today as 'Santa Claus', He appears in the left-hand panel as a baby standing up in a basin, thanking God for his birth. In the centre, he saves three impoverished girls from prostitution by giving money for their dowries. On the right, the saint, dressed as a bishop, revives three boys who had been murdered and salted down as meat during a famine.
1510 (ca.), Gerard David, Three Legends of St. Nicholas -- National Gallery of Scotland (Edinburgh)
From the museum label: St Nicholas was Archbishop of Myra in Asia Minor in the fourth century. The patron of children, he is better known today as 'Santa Claus', He appears in the left-hand panel as a baby standing up in a basin, thanking God for his birth. In the centre, he saves three impoverished girls from prostitution by giving money for their dowries. On the right, the saint, dressed as a bishop, revives three boys who had been murdered and salted down as meat during a famine.