A Bishop Saint and a Male Saint

It was Evelyn Sandberg-Vavalà who originally reconstructed the artist's oeuvre, christening him after an altarpiece in the church of San Torpé, Pisa (see E. Sandberg-Vavalà Some Partian Reconstructions-II, The Burlington Magazine, LXXXI, 1937, p. 234). Active at the beginning of the fourteenth century in Pisa, his work shows the influence of Duccio and Guido da Siena, thus suggesting that his workplace may have been Siena rather than Pisa. The present pair, first identified by Federico Zeri, were originally part of a polyptych made up of half-length figures probably centered around a slightly larger panel of the Madonna and Child.