# Coronation of Pius II [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VECCHIETTA]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on panel, 590 x 405 mm ## Commentary The restraint of the frescoes in Palazzo Pubblico co-exists with a fresher approach to narrative in such smaller-scale paintings as the Biccherna panel of the Coronation of Pius II, the pope who was to be Vecchietta's next main patron, and the predella of the altarpiece of the Virgin and Child with Saints \(1461-62; now Museo Diocesano, Pienza\) from San Niccolò a Spedaletto, Pienza. The Archivio di Stato hosts the Biccherne collection, the painted wood covers of the city of Siena's account books, called the Tavolette di Biccherna. ## Related artworks - [Alms of St Lawrence]() - [Alms of St Lawrence]() - [Arliquiera \(detail\)]() - [Arliquiera \(outer shutters\)]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ciborium]() - [Dante: Divina Commedia]() - [Death of the Virgin and Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Death of the Virgin]() - [Evangelists on the vault]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()