The Blessed Ambrogio Sansedoni (1220–1286)

Giovanni di Paolo's Blessed Ambrogio Sansedoni, painted around 1450 for the Metropolitan Museum, depicts a local Sienese blessed whose cult was promoted by the Dominican order. Sansedoni was a Dominican friar from Siena who was venerated for his preaching and miraculous deeds Egg tempera on panel was the dominant technique of the period, demanding careful layer-by-layer construction and patient craftsmanship It is now held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with one of the finest co

The figure is rendered in Giovanni di Paolo's characteristic angular style, with the Dominican habit and the landscape setting painted in his distinctive palette of strong, flat colors and expressive linear rhythms.