Virgin and Child with St Bernardino and St Catherine of Siena

Landi employs a restrained palette, contrasting the Virgin’s red mantle and black veil with the muted robes of the saints. The figures are rendered with delicate modeling and a calm linearity characteristic of the Sienese Quattrocento, while the flat blue ground eliminates spatial depth, focusing attention on the holy trio.

After its completion, the painting entered private devotional contexts before eventually being acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, where it remains on public display. Documentation traces its ownership through several European collections, confirming its attribution to Neroccio based on stylistic parallels and archival records.

Neroccio trained in the workshop of Vecchietta and later collaborated with Francesco di Giorgio, contributing to projects such as the “Scenes from the Life of St Benedict” now in the Uffizi. This painting reflects the artist’s synthesis of his master’s ornamental sensibility with the emerging naturalism of late‑15th‑century Siena.