Saint Romuald

Guiduccio Palmerucci, the leading painter of Trecento Gubbio in Umbria, created this panel of Saint Romuald, the founder of the Camaldolese order. Romuald, who established hermitages across central Italy in the early eleventh century, was especially venerated in Umbria and the Marches. Guiduccio's work represents the Umbrian strand of Italian Gothic painting, which blended Sienese elegance with local traditions rooted in the earlier example of the Roman school.

Tempera and gold on panel, depicting the Camaldolese founder in his distinctive white habit against a gold ground. Guiduccio's style shows the provincial Umbrian blend of Sienese linear refinement with a more direct, less idealized figural approach.