# Scenes from the Life of St Colomba \(St Colomba Saved by a Bear\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Tempera on panel, 55 x 55 cm ## Commentary Scenes from the Life of St Colomba \(St Colomba Saved by a Bear\) c. 1340 Tempera on panel, 55 x 55 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan The three panels in the Brera painted by an anonymous follower of Giotto, representing scenes from the life of St Colomba, belonged to a triptych, probably executed for the old cathedral of Rimini, dedicated to St Colomba and demolished in 1815. According to a plausible theory that is not universally accepted by scholars, the panels belonged to a double-faced composition placed on the high altar of the cathedral. Other panels of this work are in the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris; the Galleria Sabauda, Turin; and the Friedenthal collection, Ingenheim. In St Colomba Saved by a Bear the architectural background and the figures are laid out on diagonal lines, which are most evident in the beams of the ceiling and in the balcony. ## Related artworks - [A Bishop Saint]() - [A Curious Scene]() - [Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel]() - [Adoration of St Mark]() - [Allegorical Portrait of Dante]() - [Altar frontal]() - [Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare]() - [Altarpiece of the Magi]() - [Altarpiece]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()