Every Day a Painting for October 16, 2026

Saint Bernard and Saint Catherine of Alexandria with the Virgin of the Annunciation [right panel] (1387)

Agnolo Gaddi

Tempera on Poplar Panel. Florentine, Gothic.

Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Most early paintings are also mystery stories, making the art historians who study them detectives of a sort. Signatures were not routine, and the inscriptions on this large altarpiece name the saints…

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