Retable of Saints Athanasius, Blaise, and Agatha

Inscriptions

Inscribed: Do / min / e in foro / re tu / o ar / gua / s me (on Saint Athanasius’s book); Quicum / que v[u]l[t] / sal[v]us / es[s]e a[n] / te om / nia o[pus] (on the angel’s book at right); Sal.... (on the angel’s scroll at left)

Provenance

Gift of the Antiquarian Society, 1911 [Registrar's records, Daybook, vol. 5, p. 8].

Publications

Year Book of the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1924, p. 35. Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Spanish Painting,, vol. 8, Cambridge, Mass., 1941, pp. 378–80, fig. 169. Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España, Madrid, 1958, p. 308, no. 2703. The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 420. José Camón Aznar, Pintura medieval española, Summa artis 22, Madrid, 1966, p. 474. José Gudiol, Pintura medieval en Aragón, Saragossa, 1971, p. 83, no. 273. Judith Berg Sobré, Behind the Altar Table: The Development of the Painted Retable in Spain, 1350–1500, Columbia, Mo., 1989, p. 52 n. 12. Judith Berg Sobré in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 92-95, ill.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Quick Overview

Artist: Master of Riglos (Spanish, active c. 1435–1460)
Date: c. 1440–c. 1445
Medium: Tempera on panel
Type: Painting
Classification: painting
Style: 15th century
Place: Spain
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society
Accession no.: 1911.201

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