Job Story: The Sick Job Outdoors

The Sick Job Outdoors, paired with the indoor sickbed panel in Berlin, presents a different moment of Job's suffering — the period after he has been expelled from the city and sits on a dunghill, scraping his sores with a potsherd. The outdoor setting contrasts with the interior of the companion panel, together covering the full range of Job's humiliation. Pseudo Bartolomeo di Giovanni is a scholarly designation for a Florentine workshop figure whose production is close in style to the documented Bartolomeo di Giovanni; both names reflect the difficulty of attributing minor Florentine workshop output of the 1480s-90s to specific hands.

Tempera or oil on panel. The outdoor setting requires a landscape backdrop — sky, distant terrain — rather than interior architecture. Job's central, isolated figure set against open space creates a different compositional mood from the crowded indoor panel, emphasising his abandonment and exposure.