After Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci called Perugino

The single panel is kept stable by three horizontal battens. There is a vertical split of approximately 20 cm, some of which is visible along the front of the panel. The paint surface is fairly worn and therefore there are several areas of retouching, which flouresce under ultraviolet light. Offered in a later carved and painted wooden frame in fair condition.
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Placidus and his sister Flavia were sent by Benedict, the founder of Western Monasticism, to preach in Sicily. They were martyred by Moorish pirates in Messina.

The work is an old, near contemporary copy, after the original attributed to Perugino and collaborator found in the Pinacoteca Vaticana (see P. Scarpellini, Perugino, Milan 1984, cat. no. 88, reproduced p. 208 ill. no. 141).