# SANO di Pietro [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1406–1481 - Profession: painter - School: Italian ## Biography Italian painter and illuminator, active in Siena, where he was pupil and follower of Sassetta. . In 1428 he was listed in the guild of painters in Siena just before Sassetta. The same year he was paid for gilding and colouring a Baptism \(untraced\), possibly Sassetta's design for the Siena Baptistery font made in 1427. In 1432 he assessed Sassetta's Virgin and Child with Saints \(the Madonna of the Snow; Florence, Pitti\), and after Sassetta's death in 1450, Sano completed works left unfinished by him, including the fresco of the Coronation of the Virgin over the Porta Romana \(1458–66\), Siena, and the St Francis \(Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale\). He painted many scenes from the life of St Bernardino, including St Bernardino Preaching in Siena Cathedral. ## Related artworks - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Beheading of St John the Baptist]() - [Birth of the Virgin]() - [Donna Perna Being Cured on Approaching St Bernardino's Body]() - [Flight to Egypt]() - [Madonna and Child with Sts Anthony Abbott and Bernardino of Siena]() - [Madonna of Humility]() - [Marriage of the Virgin]() - [Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()