Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)
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Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1500

Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi): John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1911

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Read the long panel from episode to episode as Saint Zenobius intervenes in three crises; repeated architecture joins separate miracles into one continuous city.

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Botticelli painted Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius around 1500 in tempera on wood. Successive episodes unfold across one long urban setting, using repeated architecture to connect separate moments of crisis, intervention, and recovery.

Source institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rights status: Public Domain / The Met Open Access
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