Unknown Spanish Master, Scenes from the Life of St. Dominic

Altarpiece panel from Tamarite de Litera (Huesca province)
1300-20
Tempera on wood
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

List of incidents portrayed (with links to passages in the Golden Legend):

Left Side:

• Top left: Dominic's books will not burn
• Top right: His vision of SS. Peter and Paul
• Middle left: The great floods of rain
• Middle right: The miracle of the bread
• Bottom left: The miraculous coin
• Bottom right: Entering through closed doors?

Right side:

• Top left: Master Reynold
• Top right: unidentified
• Middle left: Dominic loses his books
• Middle right: The reluctant novice? the heretic Raymond? Master Conrad?
• Bottom left: unidentified
• Bottom right: unidentified

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