Adoring Saints: Right Main Tier Panel

This right main tier panel of Adoring Saints by Jacopo di Cione, dating to around 1370, formed part of the San Pier Maggiore altarpiece, one of the most ambitious Florentine altarpiece commissions of the late Trecento. Now in the National Gallery, London, the panel depicts a group of saints turning in adoration toward the central Coronation of the Virgin. The monumental altarpiece, dismembered over centuries, testified to the workshop's capacity to organize large-scale, multi-panel devotional programs.

Painted in egg tempera on panel with tooled gold ground, the adoring saints are arranged in a carefully graduated spatial recession, rendered with the workshop's systematic drapery modeling and precise, if somewhat formulaic, facial characterizations.