Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli

Peter Orioli [Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli] 1458 - 1496

The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome, Bernardino, Catherine of Alexandria and Francis About 1487-90

Tempera and gold on panel

74.6 cm x 52.7 cm

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Peter Orioli [Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli]1458 - 1496

Nativity about 1494-1496

Tempera on panel,

66.5 x 49.5 cm

Private collection

Pietro Orioli was the pre-eminent painter of his generation in Siena at the end of the fifteenth century.

There are parallels between Orioli's work and the non-realist style of the Florentine Sandro Botticelli

He died young, and was lamented for his artistic talent and for his exemplary piety. He is known from documents to have been a particularly devout individual.

His family owned rural property near Capriola, at least two of which properties were left to the Monastery dell`Osservanza in Siena. This was the Convent of St Bernardino of Siena

He himself is buried in the Basilica dell`Osservanza in Siena

The Image of S. Bernardino (above) corresponds to the image of S Bernardino in the Osservanza in Siena.