Wood 142x252 cm + frame 6 cm, Inv. n. 93

This polypthych can be dated to around 1330-40, probably from the antique monastery of S. Martino in Poggio, on the island, a settlement of Franciscan sisters just outside of Faenza near the Lamone and Marzeno rivers.
The Madonna is in the centre with two saints to the sides, who can be identified as St. Martin and St. Agnes of Assisi, and the kneeling commissioner, a nun of the Poor Clares order.
Below there are, from right to left, St. Christopher, St. Clare, St. John the Baptist, St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Louis of Toulouse. In the compartments above, in the centre is the Crucifixion with scenes from Christ's life to the sides. Agony in the Garden, the taking of Christ - with the three scenes of the kiss of Judas, Christ's arrest, and Peter cutting off the ear of the high priest's servant ? the Deposition and a cusp with St. Lawrence and St. Anthony the Abbot.
The author is unanimously agreed to be a master who knew very well the school of Rimini while creating his later works, applying such expertise with great freedom and also drawing upon some aspects of the school of Bologna.