Madonna col Bambino tra san Sebastiano e santa Caterina d'Alessandria

Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi was one of Siena's most refined painters, whose elongated figures and delicate coloring represent the quintessence of late Sienese aesthetic sensibility. This Madonna col Bambino tra san Sebastiano e santa Caterina d'Alessandria was created around 1487 and is now held at the Christian Museum. This work belongs to the Early Renaissance, the transformative period in European art when painters first applied mathematical perspective, naturalistic figure modeling, and archaeological interest in antiquity to the inherited traditions of medieval devotional painting. The tension between Gothic grace and Renaissance structure gives art of this period a distinctive energy.

Tempera on panel with Neroccio's characteristic elongated figure proportions and exquisite surface refinement. The work demonstrates the artistic qualities characteristic of Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi's period.