St Dominic (Cosmè Tura)
''Saint Dominic'' is a painting in tempera and gold on panel of c. 1475 by Cosmè Tura, now in the Uffizi in Florence. It originated in the Canonici collection in Ferrara, from which it was acquired by Professor Giuseppe Grassi in 1905. It forms part of a split-up altarpiece and relates to another five fragments of similar dimensions and style, which may have come from a single altarpiece or several. Most art historians assign the ''Saint Dominic'' to the San Giacomo in Argenta altarpiece (Mario Salmi, 1957; Nalajoli, 1974) or the Contrada di Borgo San Luca, San Luca in Borgo altarpiece in Ferrara (Roberto Longhi, 1934; Adolfo Venturi, 1914; and Ricci). Emma Micheletti relates the work to the same artist's ''Saint Anthony of Padua'' in the Louvre and ''Saint James the Great Enthroned'' in the Musée des Beaux-Arts (Caen), Musée des Beaux-Arts in Caen. Longhi also linked it to ''Saint Sebastian'' (Berlin), ''Saint Christopher'' (Berlin) and the ''Madonna'' in the collection of ...
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