Italian, Umbrian

Christ stands upright with the support of his mother, the Virgin Mary. He holds a transparent crystal orb and is clutching his semi-transparent drapery, which hangs over one shoulder like a Roman toga. He is intended to look like a miniature Roman emperor, a pose which conveys his spiritual autho...

A bishop saint holds up a book in this rather damaged medallion; we are not sure exactly who he is. This is one of three fragments in the National Gallery’s collection which possibly came from the Palazzo del Podesta in Assisi, and were perhaps once part of the framing of some large composition.T...

An unidentified male saint in a quatrefoil medallion turns the pages of a book. We are not sure exactly who he is, but he was probably meant to be one of the four Evangelists, the authors of the Gospels. This is one of three fragments in the National Gallery’s collection which possibly came from...

An unidentified male saint with an impressive beard points to his mouth with one hand and writes with the other. We are not sure exactly who he is, but he was probably meant to be one of the four Evangelists, the authors of the Gospels. This is one of three fragments in the National Gallery’s col...