Fashioning the imagery of a franciscan observant preacher: Early Renaissance Portraiture of Bernardino da Siena in Northern Italy

• Autores: Roberto Cobianchi
• Localización: I Tatti studies: essays in the Renaissance, ISSN 0393-5949, Nº. 12, 2009, págs. 55-83
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article analyzes portraits of Italian Franciscan Observant preacher Bernadino da Siena painted in Northern Italy during the early Renaissance. The author discusses portrait sketches drawn by Italian Renaissance artist Jacopo Bellini, images of Bernardino on the reliquaries of the Basilica del Santo, and his funerary mask. The author describes a ceremony honoring the canonization of Bernardino along with a medal depicting the preacher made by Antonio Marescotti. These images are analyzed by the author as a means to further understand the religious cult surrounding Bernardino after his canonization.