VIVARINI, Bartolomeo
(b. ca. 1440, Murano, d. ca. 1499, Murano)

Madonna della Misericordia

1473
Tempera on panel, 146 x 71 cm
Santa Maria Formosa, Venice

The painting is the central panel of a triptych which was commissioned by the parish priest Andrea del Sole, who is portrayed beneath the cloak of the Virgin with his ministers and parishioners.