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Painting by Domenico Beccafumi

The Trinity Triptych is a 1513 oil-on-panel painting by the Italian Mannerist painter Domenico Beccafumi, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena.

Beccafumi's earliest surviving painting, it was produced as the altarpiece for the Cappella del Manto in the Santa Maria della Scala hospital complex, where it remained until 1818. This influenced the choice of Cosmas and Damian as two of the accompanying saints, flanking John the Baptist and John the Evangelist. The artist also produced a fresco cycle for that chapel, of which only Joachim and Anna Meeting at the Golden Gate survives.

A prestigious work in light of the commissioning institution's importance and wealth, it showed Beccafumi's welcome back to Siena (he had just returned from Rome at the time). A cartouche on the frame records the work was commissioned by Battista d'Antonio da Ceva "for his devotion". As shown in documents rediscovered by Samminiatelli, the work was delivered during February and March 1513 at a fee no greater than 35 florins. Vasari's Lives of the Artists argued the work's main influence was Perugino but in fact that the artist's influence was absent in favour of Sienese and Florentine art of the period, particularly Fra' Bartolomeo's simplification of volume, Sodoma's fluidity and Filippino Lippi's expressive restlessness. The cherubs in cloud recall Raphael's recent Foligno Madonna, which Beccafumi may have seen in Rome as a work in progress, while the restlessly moving and individualised figures and contrasting colours both prefigure Mannerism

References

(in Italian) Anna Maria Francini Ciaranfi, Beccafumi, Sadea Editore/Sansoni, Firenze 1967.
(in Italian) Alfredo Aldrovandi, Nicoletta Bracci, Paola Bracco, Ciro Castelli, Ottavio Ciappi, Marco Ciatti, Mauro Parri, Alessandra Ramat and Andrea Santacesaria, 'Ricerche e Interventi su Alcuni Dipinti di Domenico Beccafumi', OPD Restauro, No. 4 (1992), pp. 28-50, 99-104

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Paintings	Trinity Triptych (1513) Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Uffizi) (c. 1514–1515) Bellanti Madonna (c. 1515) Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata (c. 1515) Saint Paul Enthroned (c. 1515) Marcia (c. 1519) Tanaquil (c. 1519) Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Alte Pinakothek) (c. 1521–1522) Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Galleria Palatina) (c. 1521–1522) Putti Bearing a Tondo Showing the Drunkenness of Noah (c. 1522–1523) Saint Michael Defeats the Rebel Angels (c. 1524) San Martino Nativity (c. 1524) The Choice of Hercules (c. 1520–1525) Deucalion and Pyrrha (c. 1520–1525) Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist and a Donor (c. 1528) Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (c. 1528) Self-Portrait (c. 1525–1530) The Story of Papirius (c. 1525–1530) Descent into Limbo (c. 1530–1535) Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1539) Sarteano Annunciation (c. 1546)
Related	Oratory of the Compagnia di San Bernardino (frescoes) Palazzo Bindi Sergardi (frescoes) Palazzo Pubblico, Siena San Niccolò al Carmine, Siena Sienese School

Domenico Beccafumi

Paintings

Trinity Triptych (1513)
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Uffizi) (c. 1514–1515)
Bellanti Madonna (c. 1515)
Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata (c. 1515)
Saint Paul Enthroned (c. 1515)
Marcia (c. 1519)
Tanaquil (c. 1519)
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Alte Pinakothek) (c. 1521–1522)
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Galleria Palatina) (c. 1521–1522)
Putti Bearing a Tondo Showing the Drunkenness of Noah (c. 1522–1523)
Saint Michael Defeats the Rebel Angels (c. 1524)
San Martino Nativity (c. 1524)
The Choice of Hercules (c. 1520–1525)
Deucalion and Pyrrha (c. 1520–1525)
Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist and a Donor (c. 1528)
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (c. 1528)
Self-Portrait (c. 1525–1530)
The Story of Papirius (c. 1525–1530)
Descent into Limbo (c. 1530–1535)
Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1539)
Sarteano Annunciation (c. 1546)

Oratory of the Compagnia di San Bernardino (frescoes)
Palazzo Bindi Sergardi (frescoes)
Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
San Niccolò al Carmine, Siena
Sienese School

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