Saint Nicholas Resuscitating Three Youths, Bicci di Lorenzo, 1433–35

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Saint Nicholas Resuscitating Three Youths, 1433–35, Tempera and gold on wood, 12 x 22 1/4 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Bicci di Lorenzo (Italian, Florence 1373–1452 Florence), In the top scene, Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra (270–343)—the original 'Saint Nick'—is shown throwing three balls of gold through a window, providing the dowry of three poverty-stricken maidens. In the other painting he resuscitates three youths who had been pickled by an innkeeper during a famine (a story treated by Benjamin Britten in his 1948 cantata, Saint Nicholas

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Size: 6098px × 3362px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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