MAZZIERE, Agnolo di Domenico
(b. ca. 1466, Firenze, d. 1513, Firenze)

Sts Bartholomew and Julian the Hospitaler

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Tempera and gold on panel, 78 x 64 cm
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

The present panel belongs to a lost altar-piece of which two other fragments are known showing The Virgin and Child and Sts Leonard and James the Great. The apostle Bartholomew is usually depicted with a knife, the instrument of his martyrdom. St Julian, a nobleman who accidentally murdered his parents, founded a hospice for travellers in atonement.