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.