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Saint Bernardino  1470

by Sano di Pietro

San Bernardino, an important fifteenth-century Franciscan preacher, is portrayed wearing the habit of his order while holding a tablet inscribed with the sacred mongram YHS, surrounded by the inscription IN NOMINE YHV/ OMNE. GENV. / FLETATUR./ CELESTIUM/ TERESTI ET INFERNORV. The reverse is gessoed and painted off-white, suggesting that the panel was designed for private d...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art