The Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Benedict

Details

Workshop of Bernardino Fungai (Siena 1460-1516)
The Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Benedict
tempera and gold on panel, arched top, in an engaged frame
26 ½ x 17 7/8 in. (67.4 x 45.4 cm.)

Provenance

Private collection, Milan, 1995.
with Bruno Scardeoni, Lugano, 1997, as Master of the Madonna Coudert, where acquired by the present owner.

Exhibited

Turin, Lingotto Fiere, Arte Antica '97, 15-23 February 1997, pp. 126-27, as Master of the Madonna Coudert.

Lot Essay

Little is known of Bernardino Fungai's artistic development and his body of work has been pieced together on the basis of his signed and dated altarpiece in the chiesa di San Niccolò, Siena. His retardataire style looks back at the works of Sassetta and Giovanni di Paolo while incorporating the influence of his contemporaries, Perugino, Pinturicchio and Signorelli.

We are grateful to Prof. Mauro Minardi for proposing the attribution on the basis of photographs.

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