Olera Altarpiece - Wikipedia

Olera Altarpiece is an oil on panel nine-panel altarpiece by Cima da Conegliano, created c. 1486–1488, housed in the parish church in Olera.^[1]

The upper central panel shows the Madonna and Child, above a register of four saints (left to right, Catherine of Alexandria, Jerome, Francis of Assisi and Lucy). The lower panels are full-length and show (from left to right) Sebastian, Peter, John the Baptist and Roch to the right. The bottom two registers flank a sculpture of Saint Bartholomew, to whom the church is dedicated.

It was listed on a pastoral visit by Vittore Soranzo on 10 October 1547 as a "singular beautiful icon", while Carlo Borromeo called it an "icona magnam inajuratam et ornatam". The parish archive was destroyed in 1630, meaning no details survive on its commission, though the central statue shows it was commissioned for the church in which it now stands^[2]

In 1820 Giovanni Maironi da Ponte attributed the work to Alvise Vivarini.

It was restored in 1958 by Angelo Gritti.^[3]^[4]

References

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^ "Olera article on the painting".
^ (in Italian) Luigi Coletti, Cima da Conegliano, Venezia, N.Pozza, 1959.
^ "Gritti, scultori del legno da quattro generazioni" (in Italian). 7 November 2011.
^ (in Italian) Mario Vazzoler, Cima da Conegliano:le Madonne, Santa Lucia di Piave:Cooperativa servizi culturali, 1993.

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Madonnas	Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint James and Saint Jerome (1489) Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Francis (1489) Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Male Saints (1489) Sacred Conversation (Milan) (1490) Conegliano Altarpiece (c. 1492) Madonna and Child with Saint Francis and Saint Clare (1492–1495) Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist (1492–1495) Madonna and Child (Bologna) (1495) Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint Mary Magdalene (1495) Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Virgin Martyrs (1495) Madonna and Child (Gemona del Friuli) (1496) Madonna and Child (Paris) (1495–1497) Dragan Altarpiece (1496–1498) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1496–1498) Madonna of the Orange Tree (1496–1498) Madonna and Child with Michael the Archangel and St Andrew (c. 1496–1498) Madonna and Child in a Landscape (Los Angeles) (1496–1499) Madonna and Child (Saint Petersburg) (1496–1499) Virgin and Child in a Landscape (Raliegh) (1496–1499) Virgin and Child (London, c. 1496–1499) (c. 1496–1499) Virgin and Child (London, c. 1499–1502) (c. 1499–1502) Madonna and Child (Cardiff) (1500) Madonna and Child (Detroit) (1499–1502) Madonna and Child (Berlin) (1504) Madonna and Child (Este) (1504) Madonna and Child (private collection) (1504) Madonna and Child (Florence) (c. 1504) Madonna and Child (Minneapolis) (1500–1504) Virgin and Child (London, c. 1505) (c. 1505) Madonna and Child (workshop of Cima, Paris) (1504–1507) The Virgin and Child with Saint Andrew and Saint Peter (c. 1510) Madonna and Child Enthroned with John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene (1511–1513) Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors (1515) Madonna and Child with Saints (Fogg Art Museum) (1515) (disputed) Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1515) Madonna and Child (Amsterdam) (1512–1517) Virgin and Child with Saints (1513–1518) (attributed) Madonna and Child with Saints (Nivå) (uncertain) Virgin and Child before a Landscape (uncertain)
Other paintings	Olera Altarpiece (c. 1486–1488) Baptism of Christ (1492) Annunciation (1495) Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple (c. 1496–1497) Polyptych of Miglionico (1499) Lamentation over the Dead Christ with a Carmelite Monk (c. 1500) Mestre Altarpiece (c. 1500–1502) Theseus Killing the Minotaur (c. 1505) St Peter Martyr with St Nicholas and St Benedict (c. 1505–1506) Montini Altarpiece (c. 1506–1507) Bacchic Cassone (1505–1510) Saints Roch, Anthony Abbot and Lucy (c. 1513) Saint Lanfranc Enthroned Between Saints John the Baptist and Liberius (1515–1516) The Archangel Raphael and Tobias with Two Saints (uncertain) Christ Enthroned Head of a Female Saint (uncertain)
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