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Original filePaintings for the Armadio degli Argenti (detail)
This set of panels features sequential narrative scenes framed by ornate Latin inscriptions that pair Old Testament prophecies with their New Testament fulfillments. The figures are depicted with traditional golden haloes against stylized landscapes and early Renaissance architectural settings. Each scene uses a balanced, rhythmic composition to present the theological concept of 'concordance' between different eras of sacred history.
This work is a primary example of biblical typology and 'Concordia,' a theological method of reconciling the Hebrew Bible with Christian scripture. This intellectual framework of seeking hidden harmonies across disparate texts and eras provided the structural foundation for the later Neoplatonic and Hermetic syncretism of the Florentine Academy.
EDVCAM VOS DESEPVLCRIS POPVLVS MEVS. ECECHIEL. XXXVII. C. CLAMAVIT JHS VOCE MAGA LAZARE VENI FORAS. STATIM PRODIIT Q ERAT MORTVVS. IO. II. C. LAVAMINI MVNDI ESTOTE AVFERTE MALVM COGITATIONVM VESTRARVM. ESAIE. I. C. ECCE REX TVVS VENIT TIBI MANSVETVS SEDES SVP ASINA FILIV SVBIVGALI. ZACHARI. IX OSANNA FILIO DAVID BENEDICTVS QVI VENIT IN NOMINE DOMINI. MATTEI. XXI. EGO IMMOLABO VOBIS VICTIMA SVP MONTEM VT COMEDATIS CARNES ET BIBATIS SANGVINE. ECECHIEL. XXXIX. MISIT AQVA IN PELVIM ICEPIT LAVARE PEDES DISCIPVLORVM ET EXERGERE LINEO. IO. XIII ECCE DATA SVNT SVPER TE VINCVLA ET LIGABVNT TE IN EIS. ECECHIEL. III. C. QVI MANDVCAT MEAM CARNEM ET BIBIT MEV SANGVINE HABET VITAM ETERNA. IO. VI. C. PERCVTIENT MAXILLAM IVDICIS ISRE. MICHEE. V. C. TILLI TENETES JHM DVXERVNT EV LIGATV AD CHAYPHAN PNCIPE SACERDOTV. MT. XXVI ... MINISTRORV DEDIT ALAPA JHM DICES SIC RESPODES PONTIFICI. IO. XVIII
Translation
I will bring you out of your graves, O my people (Ezekiel 37). / Jesus cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth. And immediately he who had been dead came forth (John 11). / Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your thoughts (Isaiah 1). / Behold, your king comes to you, meek, sitting upon an ass, the foal of a beast of burden (Zechariah 9). / Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord (Matthew 21). / I will immolate for you a victim upon the mountain, that you may eat flesh and drink blood (Ezekiel 39). / He put water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples and wipe them with a towel (John 13). / Behold, bands shall be laid upon thee, and they shall bind thee with them (Ezekiel 3). / He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life (John 6). / They shall strike the jaw of the judge of Israel (Micah 5). / And they, holding Jesus, led him bound to Caiaphas the high priest (Matthew 26). / One of the ministers gave Jesus a blow, saying: Is it thus thou answerest the high priest? (John 18).
Pico della Mirandola
Pico’s later project of reconciling Kabbalah and Greek philosophy with Christianity mirrors the Dominican typological tradition of 'Concordia' seen in these panels.
Object
Web Gallery of Art
Oil on panel
religious
Digital Source
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artworkwga QS:P11807,"a/angelico/11/4armadio"
Public domain
2126 × 2190 px
c9551cd783895db8857afc769a160a63504eb60b
June 9, 2011
March 23, 2026
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