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Saint Benedict Orders Saint Maurus to the Rescue of Saint Placidus
c. 1445/1450 · tempera on panel · National Gallery of Art, Washington
For Saint Benedict · 11 July
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A boy kneels in the lake, and a monk in white bends over him, hands at his shoulders. In the red cell Saint Benedict, seated, lifts his hand toward a kneeling brother. Gregory the Great tells it: Placidus went for water and fell in; Benedict in his cell knew it and sent Maurus, who ran over the lake, caught the boy by the hair, and only on land saw what he had crossed. Lippi is gentler, and the National Gallery of Art describes the touch at the shoulders while the pitcher still fills. All four wear ivory white. Only the water moves.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1952.5.10 · National Gallery of Art, artist page, Fra Filippo Lippi, image description for 1952.5.10 · Gregory the Great, Dialogues, Book II, chapter 7 (Life of St Benedict), OSB edition · Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Kress Collection, 'Saint Benedict Orders Saint Maurus to the Rescue of Saint Placidus', K1342 · Catholic Encyclopedia (1911), 'Olivetans', New Advent
The Record
The original, as its museum records it
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The file this print is made from
| Artist | Fra Filippo Lippi (Florentine, c. 1406–1469) |
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| Date | c. 1445/1450 |
| Museum | National Gallery of Art, Washington |
| Accession | 1952.5.10 |
| Medium | tempera on panel |
| Dimensions | 40 x 69.5 cm (15 3/4 x 27 3/8 in) |
| Sheet sizes | 18×24 in, 24×36 in, 32×48 in, 40×60 in |
| Held by | National Gallery of Art, Washington · 1952.5.10 the museum’s record |
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| Source file | the National Gallery of Art’s own open-access file (IIIF) |
| Licence | public domain; the file released under CC0 |
| Master | 27,026 × 15,580 px, the file our printer receives |
| Chain | Taken from the National Gallery of Art’s own open-access file (IIIF) on 1 September 2026; held as our print master. |
The sheets
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 27,026 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.