Sts Julian and James the Greater

1414 · Private collection

religious

This panel was the left wing of an altarpiece the central panel of which, a Madonna and Child, is in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The altarpiece was commissioned in 1414 for the church of Santa Maria Latera in the Mugello.

About the Artist

Battista di Biagio Sanguigni

1393 – present

Italian illuminator and painter. He entered the Florentine confraternity of San Niccolò al Carmine in 1415 and was named among its rectors in 1418. In 1417 he stood guarantor for the admission of Guido di Pietro, the future Fra Angelico, to the confraternity. Sanguigni did act as a tutor to Zanobi Strozzi, and from at least 1435 he lived in Fiesole, in a house owned by Strozzi. The Master of 1419 (active 1419-30 in Florence) who constructed a corpus around the Virgin and Child with Angels (Museum of Art, Cleveland), the central panel, dated 1419, of a dismembered was recognised as Battista di Biagio Sanguigni.

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