Badia Polyptych [SEP] collection
Badia Polyptych
The Badia Polyptych (Italian: "Polittico di Badia") is a painting by the Italian artist Giotto, painted around 1300 and housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence.
History.
Contemporary sources such as Lorenzo Ghiberti's " Commentarii" and Giorgio Vasari's "Lives" agree in mentioning the presence of a polyptych by Giotto at the high altar in the Badia Fiorentina. However, the work is no more document for centuries, and was considered to be lost. In the 19th century, however
age of about 20, Giotto married Ricevuta di Lapo del Pela, known as "Ciuta". The couple had numerous children (perhaps as many as eight), one of whom, Francesco, became a painter.
Giotto worked in Rome in 1297–1300, but few traces of his presence there remain today.
The Archbasilica of St. John Lateran houses a small portion of a fresco cycle, painted for the Jubilee of 1300 called by Boniface VIII. In this period Giotto also painted the "Badia Polyptych", now