Contributors

Laurence Kanter is Chief Curator and the Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery; he was formerly Assistant Curator of European Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Curator-in-Charge of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He is the author of the catalogue of Italian paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1994), and coauthor of Luca Signorelli (2001) and of numerous exhibition catalogues, including Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420–1500 (1988), Italian Renaissance Frames (1990), Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300–1450 (1994), Botticelli’s Witness (1997), The Treasury of Saint Francis of Assisi (1999), Fra Angelico (2005), Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection (2010), and most recently, Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio’s Studio, Early Paintings and New Attributions (2018).

Pia Palladino, an acknowledged authority on Italian manuscript illumination and panel painting of the thirteenth through fifteenth century, was formerly Associate Curator of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She is the author of Art and Devotion in Siena after 1350: Niccolò di Buonaccorso and Luca di Tommè (1997) and Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (2003); coauthor of Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300–1450 (1994), The Robert Lehman Collection, Vol. 4: Illuminations (1997), The Treasury of Saint Francis of Assisi (1999), and Fra Angelico (2005); and a contributing author to catalogues of the Cini Foundation in Venice, the Timken Museum in San Diego, and the Alana Collection.