SIGNORELLI, Luca
(b. ca. 1450, Cortona, d. 1523, Cortona)

St Augustine Altarpiece (right wing)

1498
Poplar, 146 x 76 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

In 1498 Luca Signorelli executed a great altarpiece for the Bichi Chapel in the church of Sant'Agostino, Siena. Two wings, now in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin, flanked a statue of St Christopher ascribed to Francesco di Giorgio Martini (Musée du Louvre, Paris). The predella is now divided between various museums.

The right wing of the altarpiece represents Sts Augustine, Catherine of Alexandria and the kneeling Anthony of Padua.