PINTURICCHIO
(b. ca. 1454, Perugia, d. 1513, Siena)

View of the Bufalini Chapel

1487-89
Fresco
Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome

The paintings in the Bufalini Chapel are the following. On the left wall: miracles of St Bernardino of Siena as a young hermit; funeral of St Bernardino with portraits of members of the Bufalini family. On the altar wall: the transfiguration of St Bernardino between Sts Louis of Toulouse and Anthony of Padua, with the resurrected Christ in the mandorla above accompanied by angels. In the vaulting: the four evangelists.