Saints Francis and Elizabeth by Giovanni Antonio Sogliani
Español Portrait of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, by italian master Giovanni Antonio Sogliani. Location: Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy Giovanni Antonio Sogliani (1492 – 17 July 1544) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, mainly active in Florence. His earliest work is the tondo of the Madonna and Child with Two Angles at the Pinacoteca Capitolina in Rome. This stunning painting depicts Saint Francis of Assisi, holding the Holy Scriptures and a Cross, and Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, holding a basket of bread meant for the poor, as her crown rests on the floor. Sogliani entered some sort of partnership with Fra Bartolomeo's workshop at San Marco, monogramming his Annunciation at Santa Maria degli Innocenti, Florence, with Fra Bartolomeo and Albertinelli's workshop monogram "orate pro pictor" ("pray for the painter"). Sogliani completed, among other works, the Martyrdom of Saint Acacius (1521) for San Salvatore di Camaldoli (now in the basilica of San
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