This & the related panel of ' Saint Peter' by an unidentified Sienese painter are from the right side of a polyptych. A third panel exists showing Saint Paul (private collection). It has been suggested that the centre panel is the Virgin & Child once in the Palazzo Venezia, Rome (from which the painter takes his name), now in the Galleria Nazionale, Rome. Mary Magdalene holds a pot of ointment with which she anointed Christ's feet. Saint Peter's keys are of gold & silver leaf. ...

There are versions of this subject by Reni in a number of other collections & the Magdalen's head in this painting seems to derive from a full-length painting of her in the Galleria Nazionale, Rome. A date in the mid-1630s has been suggested for this painting. This period was one in which Reni's style took a new direction with a generally paler palette. In 1786 this painting was engraved by Bouilliard. ...

On 4 October 1454 Piero was contracted to paint the high altarpiece of S. Agostino in Sansepolcro. It was apparently completed by 14 November 1469. On pictorial grounds the following panels, placed from left to right, are associated with it: ' Saint Augusti ...

This & other fragments in the Collection are from a large fresco (now transferred to canvas) of the ' Fall of Lucifer' which was painted for the Compagnia di Sant' Angelo or S. Michele Arcangelo in Arezzo, Italy. The scene shows Saint Michael & other angels fighting a war in heaven. The battle took place before God who was originally shown enthroned above, while Lucifer's agents plunge to earth below. The story is from the New Testament (Revelation 12: 7-9). According to the painter & biographer Giorgio Vasari (1511
- 1574), Spinello made the figure of Lucifer so horrible that it gave him bad dreams & he died soon after. This fragment of Saint Michael was not cut horizontally from the fresco; the right-hand end is considerably higher than the left-hand end. On one ' Decorative Border' fragment, an angel & an unidentified saint are depicted. On the other ' Decorative Border' fragment, a donor kneels between medallions containing another saint & angel.
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The altarpiece is complete & was dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist. It came from the Camaldolese Nunnery of San Giovanni in Pratovecchio, Italy. In the pinnacles are the Archangel Gabriel, the Trinity & the Virgin Annunciate. On the left panel ar ...

Signed & dated at the bottom of the central panel: OPVS BENVENVTI IOANES DE SENIS MCCCCLXXVIIII (Work of Benvenuto di Giovanni of Siena 1479). Inscribed below Saint Nicholas: SANTVS NICHOLAVS DEBARI. Saint Nicholas of Bari was the fourth-century Archbis ...

This painting & ' Saint Ambrose (?)', to judge by the perspective, were perhaps originally part of the upper tier of an altarpiece in compartments (polyptych). Since the pictures are Milanese, the bishop is likely to be Saint Ambrose who was the patron sa ...

This is a panel from an altarpiece. Saint Paul is depicted before a niche, with his usual attributes of a book (symbolic of his epistles) & the sword by which he was martyred. The artist was named after a very important Milanese court commission. ...

' Saint Peter & a Donor' and' Saint Paul & a Donatrix' are shutters from the same triptych, the central panel of which is now lost. The left-hand panel, shows a male donor presented by Saint Peter who holds the keys of heaven. The right-hand panel shows ...