# Scenes from the Life of St Thomas [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LUCA DI TOMMÈ]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Tempera on panel, 33 x 35 cm ## Commentary This panel, together with three others also in the Edinburgh museum and a fifth in the Vatican formed the predella of an altarpiece. It seems likely that this predella was originally attached to a polyptych, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena. This polyptych, representing the Virgin and Child with Saints was signed and dated by both Niccolò di Ser Sozzo and Luca di Tommè. While critics are divided about the respective roles of the two painters in designing and executing the principal panels of the triptych, this does not extend to the predella by Luca di Tommè. The predella panels illustrate the less familiar story of St Thomas's sea journey to southern India, his foundation of a Christian church there, and his eventual martyrdom. This panel depicts the following scene: The Broken Idol, St Thomas stabbed by the High Priest. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Beheading of St Paul]() - [Christ Blessing]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Flagellation]() - [Polyptych]() - [Preaching of St Paul and St Paul Leading to Martyrdom]() - [Scenes from the Life of St Thomas]() - [Scenes from the Life of St Thomas]() - [Scenes from the Life of St Thomas]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()