UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian
(active mid-14th century in Umbria)

A Bishop Saint

c. 1350
Fresco transferred to canvas, 47 x 47 cm
National Gallery, London

This fresco fragment comes from the Palazzo Comunale in the Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele, Assisi. Since this is a secular place, the frescoes must have come from a chapel within it.

The bishop holds a book in his left hand and may once have held a crozier in his right hand.