Saint Quentin
Pontormo, 1517
Saint Quentin is a panel painting in oil from 1517, attributed to the Florentine painter Jacopo Pontormo, and now held in the Museo Civico in Sansepolcro. It shows the martyr Saint Quentin as a full-length standing figure, and the work was originally intended as a processional standard. According to Giorgio Vasari, the commission went to Pontormo's pupil Gianmaria Pichi, but Pontormo took over and completed most of the painting himself, so it is largely considered his work. The saint's pose recalls Michelangelo's Dying Slave, a figure Pontormo admired and was close to. The placement of the nails on the saint's body follows the account in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend, a popular collection of saints' lives that supplied the iconography. The painting is an early example of Mannerist sensibility applied to a practical, portable format.
- Painter
- Pontormo
- Date
- 1517
- Medium
- oil paint, panel
- Dimensions
- 163 × 103 cm
- Museum
- Museo Civico di Sansepolcro, Sansepolcro
- Genre
- religious art
- Depicts
- Saint Quentin
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