The Quaratesi Polyptych is a painting by the Italian late medieval painter Gentile da Fabriano

Gentile da Fabriano

Gentile da Fabriano was an Italian painter known for his participation in the International Gothic style. He worked in various places in central Italy, mostly in Tuscany. His best known works are his Adoration of the Magi and the Flight into Egypt.-Biography:Gentile was born in or near Fabriano,...

, now divided between several museums.

It was painted by the artist for the Quaratesi family's chapel in the church of San Niccolò Oltrarno, perhaps not a long time after the Strozzi Altarpiece. Today four of the five original compartments (including the painted cusp) are known, as well as some parts of the predella

Predella

A predella is the platform or step on which an altar stands . In painting, the predella is the painting or sculpture along the frame at the bottom of an altarpiece...

 (which has scenes of the Life of St. Nicholas):

• Madonna with Child and Angels with, in the cups, Angels and a medallion of the Redeemer (central compartment), 222.70 x 83 cm, The Royal Collection, Hampton Court, stored at the National Gallery, London
  National Gallery, London
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• St. Mary Magdalene, with cusp (left compartment), 200 x 60 cm, Uffizi, Florence
• St. Nicholas of Bari, with cusp (left compartment), 200 x 60 cm, Uffizi, Florence
• St. John the Baptist, with cusp (right compartment), 200 x 60 cm, Uffizi, Florence
• St. George, with cusp (right compartment), 200 x 60 cm, Uffizi, Florence
• Predella
  • Birth of St. Nicholas, 36.5 x 36.5 cm, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome
  • The Gift of St. Nicholas, 36.5 x 36.5 cm, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome
  • St. Nicholas Saving a Ship from the Tempest, 36.5 x 36.5 cm, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome
  • Birth of St. Nicholas, 39 x 62 cm, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome
  • St. Nicholas Saves Three Youths from the Brine, 36.5 x 36.5 cm, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome
  • Miracle of the Pilgrims at St. Nicholas' Tomb, 36.5 x 36.5 cm, National Gallery of Art
    National Gallery of Art
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    , Washington, D.C.
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