Cenni di Francesco di Ser Cenni, The Coronation of the Virgin with Saints: Detail, a predella panel

1390s
Tempera and gold leaf on panel
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

This first panel in the predella pictures one of the miracles recounted in the Golden Legend's Life of St. Benedict:

It happed on a time that as the monks should lift a stone for a work of an edifice, they might not move it, then there assembled a great multitude of people, and yet they all might not lift it, but anon as St. Benet had blessed it, they lifted it anon. Then apperceived they that the devil was upon it and caused it to be so heavy.

All the monks are tonsured and wear the black Benedictine habit. Benedict is of course the one with the halo raising his hand in a blessing gesture.

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