Niccolò di Pietro
St. Benedict and the Poisoned Wine

1415-20
Tempera on panel
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy

The museum's label calls this "St. Benedict Drinks Poisoned Wine," but in the Golden Legend he only blesses the wine while at table, whereupon the glass containing it in breaks into pieces. That is what is illustrated in this painting. The saint is at table, he has formed the fingers of his right hand into the blessing configuration, and a fissure has formed in the side of the glass.

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Photographed at the Uffizi by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.