# Retable of Saints Athanasius, Blaise, and Agatha

**Master of Riglos** (Spanish)  
c. 1440–c. 1445  
Tempera on panel  
Christ on the Cross panel: 69.8 × 81.2 cm (27 1/2 × 32 in.); Coronation of the Virgin panel: 87.4 × 80.3 cm (34 7/16 × 31 5/8 in.); Scenes from the Life of Saint Blaise panel: 154.3 × 69.8 cm (60 3/4 × 27 1/2 in.); Saint Athanasius panel: 128.6 × 82 cm (50 11/16 × 32 5/16 in.); Scenes from the Life of Saint Agatha panel: 154.5 × 69.8 cm (60 7/8 × 27 1/2 in.); Overall: 206.1 × 226.9 cm (81 3/16 × 89 3/8 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.201. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111444).

## About this work

Master of Riglos painted this in about 1440–c. 1445. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of tempera on panel.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Tempera.** Pigment bound with egg yolk. It dries in minutes and can’t be blended wet, so painters built up form with fine, hatched strokes. It was Europe’s main panel technique before oil.

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Spanish

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: Spain
- Real size: about 27 × 32 in (69 × 81 cm). The 20 × 30 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 15th century
- Subjects: saints, women, weapons, Virgin Mary, violence, swords, staffs, spears
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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