Arcevia Altarpiece

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The Arcevia Altarpiece is a 1508 oil on panel painting by Luca Signorelli, shown in the collegiate church of San Medardo in Arcevia, for which it was originally painted.^[1] It is signed below the Madonna's feet.LUCAS. SIGNORELLUS / PINGEBAT M. D. VIII

Panels

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Upper register - Saint Paul, Saint John the Baptist, God the Father Blessing and Holding a Book Inscribed Alpha and Omega, Saint Peter, Saint James the Great
Lower register - Saint Sebastian, Saint Medardus, Madonna and Child Enthroned, Saint Andrew, Saint Roch
Left and right columns - each has seven indistinct figures of saints, surmounting two heraldic medallions at the base (tower to the left, eagle to the right)
Predella - Episodes from the Childhood of Christ (Annunciation, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Flight into Egypt, Massacre of the Innocents)

References

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^ (in Italian) Antonio Paolucci, Luca Signorelli, in I protagonisti dell'arte italiana, Scala Group, Florence, 2001.

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Paintings	Flagellation Standard (c. 1475) Testament and Death of Moses (with Bartolomeo della Gatta, c. 1482) Sant'Onofrio Altarpiece (1484) Birth of John the Baptist (c. 1485–1490) The Education of Pan (c. 1490) Madonna and Child with Ignudi (c. 1490) Our Lady of Mercy with Saints and Angels (c. 1490) Parte Guelfa Holy Family (c. 1490) The Circumcision (c. 1490–1491) Annunciation (1491) Virgin Enthroned with Saints (1491) Portrait of a Man (c. 1492) Madonna and Child (c. 1492–1493) Madonna and Child with Two Saints (c. 1492–1493) Spirito Santo Banner (1494) Crucifixion (with Pietro Perugino, c. 1483–1495; disputed) Holy Family (c. 1490–1495) Adoration of the Magi (c. 1495) Portrait of Niccolò Vitelli (c. 1492–1496) Portrait of Vitellozzo Vitelli (c. 1492–1496) Adoration of the Shepherds (1496) Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (1498) Allegory of Fertility and Abundance (c. 1500) Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1502) The Preaching of the Antichrist (1500–1504) Crucifixion Standard (c. 1502–1505) Crucifixion with Saint Mary Magdalene (c. 1502–1505) Arcevia Altarpiece (1508) Madonna and Child with the Holy Trinity and Two Saints (1510) Communion of the Apostles (c. 1512) Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1512) Madonna and Child with Saints (c. 1519–1523)
Chapels	Chapel of San Brizio Sistine Chapel
Related	Signorelli parapraxis

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