The first painting, made at the end of the seventeenth century by
Dionisio Montorselli for the Bandini chapel, represents the Preaching of Saint Bernardino (1380-1444), a member of the Franciscan Order known for his itinerant evangelization that took place in Siena and in some other towns in Tuscany and northern Italy. The saint, at the centre of the painting in a raised position, is showing the . . .