TOMÁS GINER | Saint Bernardino of Siena

We are grateful to Professor Antoni Pitarch for proposing the attribution to Tomás Giner, a late Gothic artist working in Zaragoza, on the basis of a digital image. Professor Pitarch notes the similarities between this painting and, amongst other works, Giner's panels for the Retable of don Dalmau de Mur, particularly that depicting Saints Augustine and Lawrence, today in the Episcopal Palace, Zaragoza,(1) and the depiction of Saint Blaise, in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.(2) The faces of these saints compare closely with that of Saint Bernardino here, as does the pastilla work, which was particularly favoured in Aragon at this time.

1 See R. Steven Janke, 'The Retable of Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelloó from the Archbishop's Palace at Saragossa: A Documented Work by Francí Gomar and Tomás Giner', in Metropolitan Museum Journal, 18, 1983, pp. 75–77, reproduced p. 76, figs 13 and 14.

2 Inv. no. 064051-000.