GIOVANNI DI PAOLO
(b. ca. 1399, Siena, d. 1482, Siena)

Sts Clare and Elizabeth of Hungary

c. 1445
Oil on panel, 32 x 12 cm (each)
Private collection

The small panels represents two Franciscan saints, St Clare (1193-1253) and St Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), both wearing gray Franciscan habit. It can be assumed that the panels belonged to a small devotional triptych.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 9 minutes):
Josquin Desprez: Motet (In principio erat verbum)