A panel by Pietro Lorenzetti for the Pienza Museum

30/10/24 - Acquisition - Pienza, Museo Diocesano - Presented at the Florence Biennale by the Frascione gallery, the panel by a great master of the Sienese Trecento, Pietro Lorenzetti, was purchased by the municipality of Pienza thanks to the support of private patrons [1] (ill. 1). It is now on display at the diocesan museum in the Palazzo Vescovile, otherwise known as the Palazzo Borgia, directed by Gabriele Fattorini. The work depicts Saint Luke and joins Lorenzetti’s Virgin and Child in the collections. Both were undoubtedly part of the same polyptych, now dismembered, of which other elements have been located: three saints are kept at the Horne Museum in Florence, and another figure, probably Saint Agatha, can be seen at the Musée de Tessé in Le Mans; in 2016, the latter published…