Madonna and Child with Saint Francis and Saint Bernardino of Siena

Girolamo di Benvenuto (1470 - 1524)

York Art Gallery

1470 - 1524

The centre of this composition is occupied by the Virgin and Child. Saint Francis, with stigmata wounds on his hand, stands behind the virgin and Child on the left. Saint Bernard stands on the right. The Christ child holds a bird, symbolizing the spiritual powers. This painting was part of a collection of 117 works belonging to the industrialist and engineer F.D. Lycett Green and bequeathed to York through the Art Fund, in 1955, in recognition of the remarkable efforts made after the Second World War by its curator to transform it into a gallery of international importance.

• Medium: oil on wood
• Dimensions: 36.8 x 27.9cm
• ArtFunded in: 1955
• Presented by F D Lycett Green through The Art Fund

Provenance

Gotha Museum; F.D. Lycett Green.

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