Tornabuoni Altarpiece Explained

The Tornabuoni Altarpiece (Italian - Pala Tornabuoni) is a tempera on panel painting by Domenico Ghirlandaio and his studio as the high altarpiece for the Tornabuoni Chapel in Santa Maria Novella.^[1] It was begun around 1490 and completed around 1498, four years after the painter's death. It is now split between several museums, with the central panel and two others now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.^[2]

Panels

• Madonna in Glory with Saints, Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Laurence, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
• Resurrection (reverse), Gemäldegalerie, Berlin^[3]
• Saint Stephen, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest^[4]
• St Peter Martyr, Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Traversetolo (province of Parma)
• Saint Vincenzo Ferrer and Saint Anthony of Padua, previously Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, destroyed in May 1945 in the burning of the Flakturm Friedrichshain

References

1. Web site: Madonna in Glory with Saints . 2024-05-09 . Web Gallery of Art.
2. Web site: Domenico Ghirlandaio (und Werkstatt), Hochaltar von Santa Maria Novella: Maria mit Kind und den hll. Dominikus, Michael, Johannes dem Täufer und Thomas, um 1490/94 . 2024-05-09 . Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen: Alte Pinakothek München . de.
3. Web site: Die Auferstehung Christi . 2024-05-09 . Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) . de.
4. Web site: Saint Stephen Protomartyr . 2024-05-09 . Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest . en-US.