Sts Bartholomew and Julian the Hospitaler
by MAZZIERE, Agnolo di Domenico, Tempera and gold on panel, 78 x 64 cm
The present panel belongs to a lost altar-piece of which two other fragments are known showing The Virgin and Child and Sts Leonard and James the Great. The apostle Bartholomew is usually depicted with a knife, the instrument of his martyrdom. St Julian, a nobleman who accidentally murdered his parents, founded a hospice for travellers in atonement.