Le Christ adoré par huit saints

Le Christ adoré par huit saints, at the Musée du Petit Palais in Avignon, presents Christ in glory surrounded by eight standing saints—a sacra conversazione format that was among the most commonly requested compositions in fifteenth-century Italian devotional painting. Neri di Bicci's Avignon panel represents the wide diffusion of Florentine workshop products across Europe, as Italian paintings were exported or carried by traveling merchants and clergy throughout the fifteenth century. The Musée du Petit Palais in Avignon holds one of the finest collections of medieval and early Renaissance Italian painting outside Italy.

The saints are arranged symmetrically around the central Christ figure, each identifiable by their attributes—palm branches, books, instruments of martyrdom. The gold ground is tooled with a simple punched pattern around the haloes, and the draperies are rendered in the standard Florentine egg tempera technique of hatched brushstrokes over a gessoed panel.