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Sano di Pietro
(Italy 1405–1481)
- Title
- Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, John the Baptist, Bernardino and Bartholomew
- Other titles:
- Virgin and Child with Sts Jerome, John the Baptist, Bernard and Bartholomew
- Year
- 1450-1481
- Media
- Painting
- Medium
- gold leaf and tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 60.5 x 43.2cm panel; 93.5 x 52.2 x 9.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of John Fairfax and Sons Ltd. to commemorate the 140th anniversary of the founding of the Sydney Morning Herald 1971
- Accession number
- 151.1971
- Location
- 15th–19th c European art
- Further information
With its gold-ground and tempera technique, this devotional altarpiece is an example of the international Gothic style that survived in Siena well into the fifteenth century. Noted for the richness and variety of his palette, Sano di Pietro was a successful master who ran a busy workshop in that city. He seems to have been familiar with Venetian religious painting, a certain Byzantine preciousness being part of his repertoire. A number of Sano's subjects focused on the life and works of San Bernardino, a controversial local saint the painter had known personally. It was Bernardino who conceived the device of the Holy Name in the Sun, an emblem in which twelve solar rays represented twelve articles of faith promulgated by the Apostles. For this doctrinal innovation he was charged with heresy. In this panel, Bernardino's participation is restricted to that of an auxiliary figure. Appropriately, it is the blue-mantled Virgin and her delightful infant who hold our attention.
AGNSW Handbook, 1999.
- Provenance
- John Fairfax & Sons (Australia), Oct 1970-18 Apr 1971, Australia, Gift of John Fairfax and Sons 1971
Agnew's, London (England, estab. 1817), Oct 1970, London/England, Purchased by John Fairfax and Sons Ltd from the exhibition 'Paintings and drawings from Agnew's London', held at David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney 7-24 October 1970
Jocelyn Fielding (England), 10 Apr 1970-Oct 1970?, England, Purchased Christie's London, 10 April 1970, lot no. 92
Joanna Parsons, pre 10 Apr 1970, England, Sold Christie's London, 10 April 1970, lot no. 92
Sir Thomas Neave (England), 19th century, Essex/England - Bibliography (9)
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The many faces of Christ (2000), Michael Mohi (Australia) (Editor), Addwall Pty Ltd (Australia), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook (1999), Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
European Paintings before 1800 in Australian and New Zealand public collections (1989), Peter Tomory (United Kingdom) (Author), Robert Gaston (Author), The Beagle Press (Australia), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook (1988), Annabel Davie (Editor), Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The Sydney Morning Herald (19 Apr 1971), Editor Unknown (Editor), John Fairfax & Sons (Australia), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Paintings and drawings from Agnew's, London (1970), David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney (Australia, estab. 1928) (Author).
The Sydney Morning Herald (08 Oct 1970), Editor Unknown (Editor), John Fairfax & Sons (Australia), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The World of San Bernardino (1963), Iris Origo (Author), Cape (England), London, England.
Siennese quattrocento painting (1947), John Pope-Hennessy (England; United States of America; Italy, b.1913, d.1994) (Author), Phaidon Press Ltd (United Kingdom), London, England.
- Exhibition history (1)
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Paintings and drawings from Agnew's London, (07 Oct 1970–24 Oct 1970), at David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney (Australia, estab. 1928), 7th Floor Elizabeth Street Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2000.