Madonnas attributed to Italian Painter Sano di Pietro (1406-1481)

Sano di Pietro (Italian painter, 1406-1481) Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels

Sano di Pietro (Italian painter, 1406-1481) 'Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, John the Baptist, Bernardino and Bartholomew

Sano di Pietro (Italian painter, 1406-1481) Madonna and Child 

Sano di Pietro (Italian painter, 1406-1481)  Madonna Surrounded by Six Saints

Sano di Pietro (Italian painter, 1406-1481) Virgin and Child 1450-60

Sano di Pietro (Italian painter, 1406-1481) Madonna of Humility

Sano di Pietro (Italian painter, 1406-1481) Madonna and Child with Saints

Sano di Pietro (Italian painter, 1406-1481) Madonna and Child with Saints

Sano di Pietro (Italian painter, 1406-1481) Madonna and Child with St Jerome, St Bernardino, and 4 angels

Sano di Pietro (Italian painter, 1406-1481) Madonna and Child

In this blog, I try to begin each day with a painting of the Madonna & Child. It centers me; connects me to the past; & encourages me to post some of the religious paintings which were a large part of the core of early Western art.  In the 4C, as the Christian population was rapidly growing & was now supported by the state, Christian art evolved & became grander to suit new, enlarged public spaces & the tastes of elite private clients.