Sano di Pietro

He was active for about half a century during the Quattrocento period and his contemporaries included Giovanni di Paolo and Sassetta.

His death notice read: In the century before Sano's birth the Sienese school of painting had risen as a rival to that of the Florentines.

In fact the inscription above the Camopilla Gate leading into the city says; Sienese painting was said to personify dreams.

The draperies of the clothing are elegant and numerous, but it is the patterns of the fabrics and the details on the necklines that can leave the viewer breathless.

This lightness of being displayed in the figures and even the landscapes themselves is the final hallmark of a painting from the Sienese School.

He says that when the viewer looks at a painting that has been attributed solely to di Pietro one can see his sensitivity and style.

[7] The central figure of Mary is clad in a blue robe whose folds seem to shimmer with intensity.

In 1425, St. Bernardino gave seven sermons a day for seven weeks in the town square (campo) of Siena.

The warm colors are balanced by the blues in the sky and the canopy, both of which bisect the painting.