Attributed to Bonifazio de' Pitati - Sacra Conversazione with Saints Jerome, Justina, Ursula and Bernardino of Siena, 1520 - 1529, NT 1420347, Bonifazio Veronese, between 1520 and 1529

Oil painting on canvas, sacra conversazione with saints jerome, justina, ursula and bernardino of siena, attributed to bonifazio de' pitati (verona 1487 ? venice 1553) or jacopo palma negreti, known as palma vecchio (lombardy c. 1479 ? venice 1528), 1520s. An informal grouping of the madonna and child with saints, the figures are grouped across the foreground with a blue-green sketchy landscape behind. San bernardino, on the far right was made a patron saint of venice in 1470; saint justina was the patron saint of the venetian university in the city of padua and had her own church in venice, s. Giustina (suppressed in 1810). Saint jerome on the far left, had two churches under his partronage and a confraternity with a scuola and the oratory under the patronage of saint ursula (also surpressed in 1810), famously decorated with paintings by carpaccio, now in the accademia, venice. Date: between 1520 and 1529.