Saint Mary Magdalene, with an Angel [left panel]

Pietro Lorenzetti's Saint Mary Magdalene with an Angel (c. 1340) is a left wing panel from a dismembered altarpiece by the elder of the two Lorenzetti brothers, whose powerful, emotionally direct style represented one of the great achievements of Sienese Trecento painting. Pietro's art combined the structural clarity he absorbed from Giotto with the Sienese tradition of refined color and elegant line. His career was likely cut short by the Black Death of 1348, which devastated Siena's artistic community.

Executed in egg tempera on gold ground, the panel displays Pietro's characteristic combination of volumetric solidity and refined surface detail. The Magdalene's flowing hair and the angel's wings are rendered with delicate brushwork against the tooled gold background.