VECCHIETTA
(b. 1410, Siena, d. 1480, Siena)

Triptych

c. 1460
Oil on panel, 81 x 87 cm
Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon

Vecchietta brought into Siena a new Renaissance architectural décor to the traditional form of the portable leafed triptych. The centre panel of the present triptych depicts the Virgin Enthroned with the Child, while the left wing represents St John the Baptist, the right wing St Jerome.