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Altarpiece: The Nativity with Saints Anthony of Padua and Nicholas of Bari

Andrea Della Robbia, 1500–1525

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham

Florentine Altarpiece; The Nativity with Saints Anthony of Padua and Nicholas of Bari. It is a reworking of a composition without the Saints which appears in the predella of Andrea's Montepulcanio Altarpiece, 1484.

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Title of artwork, date

Altarpiece: The Nativity with Saints Anthony of Padua and Nicholas of Bari, 1500–1525

Date supported

1986

Medium and material

Buff terracotta, tin glaze & painted polychrome colours

Dimensions

94 x 66 cm

Gifted by

Mr & Mrs Alexander Murray Smith

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