# Tomb Monument to Fra Domenico Strambi [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MAINARDI, Bastiano]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Fresco, 250 x 290 cm ## Commentary Fra Domenico Strambi was a scholarly Augustinian monk, who was Benozzo Gozzoli's patron when he painted the main <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/gozzoli/4gimigna/index.html'\)" HREF="/html/g/gozzoli/4gimigna/index.html">choir chapel in Sant'Agostino</A> in San Gimignano. In 1487, Bastiano Mainardi, a native of San Gimignano who was a pupil of Domenico Ghirlandaio, painted on the north wall of the church \(to the left of the choir\) a depiction of St Gemignanus seated on his bishop's throne. Three local notables kneel before the city's patron saint. Below this scene there is a painted monument, with an inscription explaining that Strambi is buried here. It shows the deceased laid out atop a sarcophagus in an imaginary niche. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin with the Gift of the Girdle]() - [Madonna with Child, the Young St John and Two Angels]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() - [Virgin Adoring the Child with Two Angels]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()