san bernardino da siena

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 san bernardino da siena was created around 1480 and is now held at the Calvet Museum Egg tempera on panel was the dominant technique of the period, demanding careful layer-by-layer construction and patient craftsmanship The work is now in the collection of Calvet Museum.

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.