# Panels of the Life of Saint Zenobius are completed about 1500–05 as a Florentine sacred narrative cycle

Date: 1500

## The fact

National Gallery and Met independently hold and describe Zenobius narrative panels by Botticelli.

It is one event.

## Context

A local bishop-saint’s miracles cycle is a knowledge-and-civic-devotion path for Florence. Shared assistants remain.

[Sandro Botticelli](/people/sandro-botticelli)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

National Gallery, Met, and Dresden share the Zenobius set. Dating early 1500s. One saint’s life cycle, one Fact. Later museum splits are carriers.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

National Gallery, London — Sandro Botticelli and Met Heilbrunn — Botticelli independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: National Gallery, London — Sandro Botticelli (https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/sandro-botticelli; The National Gallery, London).

## Significance

Zenobius panels are a knowledge-access path of high confidence on the cycle.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a sourced public record of this instrument at the date assigned here.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Sandro Botticelli.

They are not a public rating.

Sandro Botticelli did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not split each miracle into a Fact. Museum tickets are not lifetime acts. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Sandro Botticelli.

## People

- Sandro Botticelli: https://factrail.ai/people/sandro-botticelli

## Sources

- https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/sandro-botticelli
- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bott/hd_bott.htm

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sb-zenobius-panels