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St. John Baptist
Judith and Holofernes
Madonna with child
San Sebastiano cured by the angels
Madonna of the straw
Salome with the head of the Baptist
The elegant snack
Corsini throne
Venus reaches dying Adonis
Dispute of Jesus among the doctors
The torture of Prometheus
Denial of Peter
Madonna of the milk
Triptych with Ascension, Last Judgment, Pentecost
Allegory of the four elements - Air, Water, Earth, Fire
The hare
Polyptych with Madonna and Child with Saints
The tribute of the currency
Adoration of the shepherds

Triptych with Ascension, Last Judgment, Pentecost

Beato Angelico

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Corsini Gallery

Corsini Gallery

Via della Lungara, 10 , Rome

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The work, donated to Cardinal Lorenzo Corsini, caused scholars to discuss for a long time: it was not clear whether the three tablets were conceived by Beato Angelico as a unitary work or if they had been readapted and put together later. Doubts arose due to the unusual combination of the three depicted episodes - Ascension, Last Judgment, Pentecost - and due to an erroneous reading of a Corsini inventory, according to which the tablets were donated separately and then assembled. Recent studies have instead denied both the latter hypothesis and the alleged incongruity of the three episodes: this association is also found in other works and is motivated by thematic and doctrinal connections. The recent restoration has made it possible to recover the bright colors and the great wealth of details, typical of the Florentine artist's production. Next to these, the calm expressiveness of the faces and the geometric setting of the scenes should be noted: in the Judgment, for example, the two groups of redeemed and damned crowd respectively to the left and to the right of a row of tombs open in the ground which, together with the Christ the Judge divide the painted panel exactly in half.
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Title: Triptych with Ascension, Last Judgment, Pentecost

Author: Beato Angelico

Date: 1447-1448

Technique: Tempera on wood

Displayed in: Corsini Gallery

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