MATTEO di Giovanni
(b. ca. 1430, Borgo San Sepolcro, d. 1495, Siena)

St Nicholas of Bari

1455-60
Tempera on wood, 43 x 25 cm
Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg

In a golden background, the saint is presented in a niche below a trilobed arc. In his left hand he holds a book, while in his right hand the three balls of gold, his iconographical attributions,

This panel, and the similar panel depicting St Jerome (Christian Museum, Esztergom) belonged to an altarpiece, now dismembered.