Now on View at the Dallas Museum of Art: Newly Restored Early Renaissance Painting

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The Segovia Master (active in Castille, Spain, c. 1500), St. Bonaventure with the Tree of Life,
c. 1490, oil, gold leaf, and silver leaf on panel, Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Campbell, 28.2014.1.

TEXAS---A rare example of early Renaissance Spanish painting, St. Bonaventure with the Tree of Life, has been restored in the DMA’s Paintings Conservation Studio and is now on view in the Dallas Museum of Art’s European galleries on Level 2. The picture is part of the Museum’s conservation program to collaborate with private collectors on the study and care of their collections, and then present the works in the DMA galleries for public viewing. Saint Bonaventure (1221–1274) was a Franciscan friar and one of the most important Catholic philosophers of the late Middle Ages. In this painting, he is shown next to a “Tree of Life,” a diagram that was meant to serve as a visual aid, helping the faithful remember twelve spiritual lessons of the life of Christ. [link]