Polyptych of Miglionico

The Polyptych of Miglionico is a large, multicompartment Renaissance-style altarpiece painted in 1499 by Cima da Conegliano and housed in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in the town of Miglionico, province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy.

The large altarpiece consists of 18 wooden panels painted with tempera and oil in a style pioneered by Giovanni Bellini. In the center of the work is an Enthroned Madonna with Child. To the left of the center panel is a standing St Francis of Assisi and St Jerome. To the right, St Peter and St Antony of Padua. Above are half-busts of St Clare, St Louis of Toulouse, St Bernardino of Siena, and St Catherine of Alexandria. Atop the piece is a Christ with an Annunciation. In the base are a series of Franciscan proto-martyrs. The central panel with a nativity scene is missing.

The work was originally present in a Franciscan structure in the Veneto, but acquired in 1598 by the Archbishop Marcantonio Mazzone. The center panel is signed by a JOANES BAPTISTA, which in 1907, along with the stylistic elements, led Martin Wackernagel to attribute the work to Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano.^[1]

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^ Comune of Miglionico.

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Madonnas	Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint James and Saint Jerome (1489) Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Francis (1489) Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Male Saints (1489) Sacred Conversation (Milan) (1490) Conegliano Altarpiece (c. 1492) Madonna and Child with Saint Francis and Saint Clare (1492–1495) Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist (1492–1495) Madonna and Child (Bologna) (1495) Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint Mary Magdalene (1495) Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Virgin Martyrs (1495) Madonna and Child (Gemona del Friuli) (1496) Madonna and Child (Paris) (1495–1497) Dragan Altarpiece (1496–1498) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1496–1498) Madonna of the Orange Tree (1496–1498) Madonna and Child with Michael the Archangel and St Andrew (c. 1496–1498) Madonna and Child in a Landscape (Los Angeles) (1496–1499) Madonna and Child (Saint Petersburg) (1496–1499) Virgin and Child in a Landscape (Raliegh) (1496–1499) Virgin and Child (London, c. 1496–1499) (c. 1496–1499) Virgin and Child (London, c. 1499–1502) (c. 1499–1502) Madonna and Child (Cardiff) (1500) Madonna and Child (Detroit) (1499–1502) Madonna and Child (Berlin) (1504) Madonna and Child (Este) (1504) Madonna and Child (private collection) (1504) Madonna and Child (Florence) (c. 1504) Madonna and Child (Minneapolis) (1500–1504) Virgin and Child (London, c. 1505) (c. 1505) Madonna and Child (workshop of Cima, Paris) (1504–1507) The Virgin and Child with Saint Andrew and Saint Peter (c. 1510) Madonna and Child Enthroned with John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene (1511–1513) Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors (1515) Madonna and Child with Saints (Fogg Art Museum) (1515) (disputed) Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1515) Madonna and Child (Amsterdam) (1512–1517) Virgin and Child with Saints (1513–1518) (attributed) Madonna and Child with Saints (Nivå) (uncertain) Virgin and Child before a Landscape (uncertain)
Other paintings	Olera Altarpiece (c. 1486–1488) Baptism of Christ (1492) Annunciation (1495) Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple (c. 1496–1497) Polyptych of Miglionico (1499) Lamentation over the Dead Christ with a Carmelite Monk (c. 1500) Mestre Altarpiece (c. 1500–1502) Theseus Killing the Minotaur (c. 1505) St Peter Martyr with St Nicholas and St Benedict (c. 1505–1506) Montini Altarpiece (c. 1506–1507) Bacchic Cassone (1505–1510) Saints Roch, Anthony Abbot and Lucy (c. 1513) Saint Lanfranc Enthroned Between Saints John the Baptist and Liberius (1515–1516) The Archangel Raphael and Tobias with Two Saints (uncertain) Christ Enthroned Head of a Female Saint (uncertain)
Related	Venetian school

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