Sano di Pietro

Triptych of Madonna with Child, St. James and St. John the Evangelist. Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Saint Petronilla.

Sano di Pietro (1406–1481) was an early Italian Renaissance painter and miniaturist from Siena.

No works by Sano are known before 1443; he apprenticed under Sassetta and Giovanni di Paolo

Sano di Pietro's paintings are housed in the National Gallery and the Cathedral Museum of Siena, the Pinacoteca Vaticana, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Lindenau-Museum of Altenburg and the Diocesan Museum of Pienza.

Selected works

• The Nativity (ca. 1445) - Panel Pinacoteca, Vatican [1]

• Madonna of Humility (1440-1442) - Tempera and gold on panel Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York [2]

• Flight to Egypt (ca. 1445) - Panel Pinacoteca, Vatican [3]

• Predella of an altarpiece in five parts:

• Birth of the Virgin (1448-52) - Tempera on wood, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor [4]

• Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple (1448-52) - Tempera on wood, 32 x 46 cm. Pinacoteca, Vatican [5]

• Return of the Virgin (1448-52) - Tempera on wood, 30 x 46 cm. Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg [6]

• Marriage of the Virgin (1448-52) - Tempera on wood, 32 x 46 cm. Pinacoteca, Vatican [7]

• Assumption of the Virgin (1448-52) - Tempera on wood, 32 x 47 cm. Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg [8]

• Beheading of St John the Babtist - Tempera on wood, 24 x 34 cm. Pushkin Museum, Moscow [9]

• St Jerome (ca. 1470) - Tempera on panel 95 x 51 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [10]
• "Madonna And Child"-tempera on wood(Detroit Institute of Art)Detroit

See also

• Sienese School

External links

• Artcyclopedia information
• Web Gallery of Art information
• Christus Rex Image Gallery
• Sano di Pietro at Panopticon Virtual Art Gallery