Penelope

Domenico Beccafumi, the most original Sienese painter of the sixteenth century, created this composition around 1514. The work reflects the artistic conventions and devotional culture of the High Renaissance period, when religious painting served both public worship and private contemplation across Europe. Now held at Patriarchal Seminary of Venice, it demonstrates the artist's contribution to the rich visual culture of the early sixteenth century.

The panel shows the distinctive Sienese approach with refined color and elegant figure types, characteristic of the artist's contribution to central Italian devotional painting.