# Donna Perna Being Cured on Approaching St Bernardino's Body [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SANO di Pietro]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Tempera on panel, gold ground, 25 x 41 cm ## Commentary This painting - together with two other panels - belonged to a predella depicting posthumous miracles associated with St Bernardino. The event depicted in this panel took place on 22 May 1450, a week after Saint Bernardino's canonization by order of Pope Nicholas V. It shows the paralytic donna Perna, wife of the Aquilean Matteo Petrucci, being cured after approaching the corpse of Saint Bernardino: his body was removed from its coffin by the people of Aquila and displayed in the church for veneration almost exactly six years after the saint's death in the Franciscan convent of Aquila on 20 May 1444. ## 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]() - [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]() - [Return of the Virgin \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()