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

St Augustine Altarpiece (left 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 left wing of the altarpiece represents Sts Catherine of Siena, Magdalen, and the kneeling St Jerome.




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