Adoring Saints: Left Main Tier Panel

Jacopo di Cione's Adoring Saints panel formed part of the main tier of the San Pier Maggiore altarpiece, one of the most ambitious Florentine altarpiece commissions of the 1370s. The altarpiece, now dismembered across the National Gallery, London, and other collections, was created for the Benedictine convent church of San Pier Maggiore. Jacopo led the family workshop that had dominated Florentine painting since the 1340s, executing large-scale commissions that maintained the solemn, hierarchical style established by his brother Orcagna.

Tempera and gold on panel with the dignified, formally arranged figural compositions characteristic of the Orcagna workshop's late production. The adoring saints are rendered with careful attention to individualized drapery patterns and devotional gestures within a unified gold-ground setting.