Sacra Conversazione

Giovanni Mansueti, a pupil of Gentile Bellini, is best-known for his large-scale narrative canvases painted for the meeting rooms of the Venetian confraternities, but he also painted a large number of altarpieces and smaller devotional works such as the present panel showing the Madonna and Child with Sts Francis and Andrew. In this case, however, he seems to have been more influenced by the work of Giovanni Bellini.