Bernardino Fungai

Bernardino Fungai (1460– c. 1516) was an Italian painter whose work marks the transition from late Gothic painting to the early Renaissance in the Sienese school.

[1] He maintained a fairly archaic style in his works, which are mainly of a devotional nature.

[3] He is recorded as a pupil of Benvenuto di Giovanni in 1482 while working on frescoes for the cupola in the Siena Cathedral.

[3] The quality of his landscapes is already clear in Bernardino Fungai's earliest recorded work dated to 1495–97, a Stigmatisation of St Catherine in the Santuario Cateriniano at Fontebranda.

[3] The composition reveals a panorama of graceful buildings, gentle hills and tall trees with an extensive sea in the back enlivened with small boats.

Martyrdom of St Clement
The dead Christ supported by two Angels
The beloved of Enalus sacrificed to Poseidon and spared