FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO MARTINI
(b. 1439, Siena, d. 1502, Siena)

St Christopher

c. 1494
Polychromed wood, height 163 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

In addition to the early St John the Baptist this is the only large wooden sculpture of the artist. A hole in the left shoulder of the saints indicates the place where the Child, now lost, was fixed.

This statue was in the centre of an altarpiece painted by Luca Signorelli for the Bichi Chapel in the church of Sant'Agostino in Siena.