Portland Art Museum presents full 14th-century altarpiece by Francescuccio Ghissi
(Artdaily.org)

The Portland Art Museum presents an exhibition that brings together eight dispersed 14th-century paintings, and a recreated missing panel, so that the altarpiece can be seen and appreciated as one magnificent work of art. This reunion allows visitors to see the Museum’s Resurrection of Drusiana in its original context in the upper left corner. Donated by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in 1961, the painting is one of the finest Early Italian narrative scenes in the Pacific Northwest. “This type of exhibition is staged very rarely, so visitors should take advantage of this special opportunity to see one of the Museum’s early Renaissance paintings in its magnificent original context,” said exhibition curator Dawson Carr, Ph.D., The Janet and Richard Geary Curator of European Art. Ghissi worked in the Marche, the mountainous Italian region between the Apennines and the Adriatic Sea. The St. John Altarpiece is m