Bernardino Fungai (1460– c. 1516)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Works by Fungai marks the transition from late Gothic painting to the early Renaissance in the Sienese school.
• He maintained a fairly archaic style in his works, which are mainly of a devotional nature.
• Fungai's real name was Bernardino Cristofano di Niccolò d'Antonio di Pietro da Fungaia.
• His family came originally from a village near Siena called Fungaia.
• He is recorded as a pupil of Benvenuto di Giovanni in 1482.
• Fungai was commissioned in 1494 to decorate ceremonial banners with azure and gold.
• He also created an altarpiece in 1512 for a Sienese church.
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