Madonna and Child with four Saints

Bartolomeo della Gatta was a Tuscan painter and Camaldolese monk who brought distinctive spiritual sensitivity to his work for churches in Arezzo and the surrounding Tuscan countryside. This Madonna and Child with four Saints was created around 1486 The Madonna and Child was the most ubiquitous devotional subject of medieval and Renaissance art, present in every church and many private homes as a focus for prayer and spiritual contemplation Egg tempera on panel was the dominant technique of the

Oil on panel with careful figure drawing and landscape setting characteristic of Tuscan painting. The work demonstrates the artistic qualities characteristic of Bartolomeo della Gatta's period.