Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Title: Pilgrims at the Tomb of St. Nicholas of Bari
  • Creator: Gentile da Fabriano, painter
  • Description: A number of pilgrims, female and male, approach the tomb of St. Nicholas of Bari in order to touch it. Beneath the tomb a woman swoons while being supported by another woman. In the left foreground a man walks away with his crutches, having been healed miraculously.
  • Source: Wikimedia Commons
  • Rights: Public domain
  • Subject (See Also): Architecture- Religious Diseases Miracles Pilgrimage
  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 15
  • Date: 1425
  • Related Work: Quaratesi Altarpiece
  • Current Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection (1939:1.268)
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  • Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; PaintingsPainting
  • Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Panel; Paint
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  • Height/Width/Length(cm): 36 cm/35 cm/
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