Saint Alexander

Girolamo Romanino painted this Saint Alexander around 1524, depicting the patron saint of Bergamo. The bold, physically powerful saint figures that Romanino produced for Brescian and Bergamasque churches represent some of the most compelling individual saints in Italian Renaissance painting. The 1520s were a decade of transition, marked by the deaths of Raphael and Leonardo, the shock of the Reformation, and the beginnings of Mannerist experimentation.

The panel displays Romanino's vigorous Brescian style with bold brushwork, rich color, and the compelling physical presence that makes his saint figures uniquely powerful.