Scenes from the Lives of Christ and Saint John the Baptist

This panel depicting Scenes from the Lives of Christ and Saint John the Baptist (c. 1310) by the Master of Vicchio di Rimaggio is a complex narrative work by an anonymous Florentine painter active in the early Trecento. The master takes his conventional name from a painting in the village of Vicchio di Rimaggio near Florence, and his work represents the transition between the late Byzantine manner and the Giottesque revolution. Multi-scene narrative panels like this served as altarpieces or devotional aids, allowing the faithful to contemplate key episodes from sacred history in a single visual field.

Painted in egg tempera and gold leaf on panel, the work divides its surface into multiple narrative compartments separated by painted architectural framing. The figures show a transitional style between Byzantine hieratic convention and the emerging Giottesque naturalism, with gilded backgrounds and decorative punch-work throughout.