Sano di Pietro, Madonna del Pilastro

Description

The small panel, coming from the Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta, where Francesco Brogi commemorates it in 1863 and Aroldo Peruzzi in 1931, is better known as "The Madonna of the Pillar", because it was placed in a small tabernacle located in the fourth pillar that divides the fourth from the fifth chapel of the left nave of the Poliziano Cathedral. The valuable and refined pictorial execution of fourteenth-century ancestry and the remarkable stylistic and formal quality of the Poliziana Madonna, make it one of the best Marian images made by the painter-miniaturist Sano di Pietro, a prolific pupil of Taddeo di Bartolo and Sassetta, author of numerous sacred images of similar subject (many of which came from his numerous workshop), similar examples of which can be admired in the hall dedicated to the works of this master in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena.