Artist: Sano Di Pietro
Date: 1450
Size: 24 x 22 cm
Technique: Tempera
San Bernardino, an important fifteenth-century Franciscan preacher, is portrayed wearing the habit of his order while holding a tablet inscribed with the sacred mongram YHS. This panel and another in the Lehman Collection, which depicts a similar figure of Saint Francis (1975.1.50), originally belonged the same (unidentified) altarpiece complex, and likely appeared at the base of the pilasters. The two Lehman panels resemble the pilaster panels of the triptych painted by Sano di Pietro in the Basilica of San Bernardino all’Osservanza in Siena. Sano was a popular and highly prolific Sienese painter and illuminator. The close stylistic affinities between works attributed to Sano and the enigmatic Sienese artist known as the Osservanza Master (so-named after the above-mentioned triptych in the Osservanza in Siena) may indicate that they represent a single artistic identity. It is also possible that the paintings attributed to the Osservanza Master are the product of a collaborative workshop to which these artists belonged.
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