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Madonna and Child with Two Hermit Saints
Creator
Bernardino FungaiItalian Artist · 1460–1516
All works by this person →Scholars find little documentation of Bernardino Fungai's career. Only in this century has academic attention turned to him. Using his signed and dated altarpiece of 1512 in a church in Siena, scholars are comparing paintings, sorting out attributions, and piecing together the chronology of his paintings. Fungai probably studied with local masters in Siena, his birthplace. His painting style point
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- early 1480s
- Medium
- Tempera on panel
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Paintings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
In a typically Sienese manner, Bernardino Fungai mingled elements of Gothic art--a tooled gold background--with the new Renaissance ideas of three-dimensionality. Fungai presented the hermit saints in three-quarter view to display his knowledge of the new concept of foreshortening, yet he retained a typically Sienese interest in decorative patterning, as seen in the Virgin's elaborate drapery. He tilted Christ's painted halo in perspective, but he incised those of the saints and the Virgin into the background. Fungai also effectively employed the characteristic linear harmonies of Sienese art in the gentle contours of the docile Virgin's mantle, the subtle scallops of her white headgear, the fluttery end of Christ's transparent drapery, and the saints' wavy beards.
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