Created for San Domenico, Rivoli

Signed and dated 137..

Signed and dated 136..

The composition is similar to the confraternity banner of St Anthony Abbot in London. In this work, however, the confraternity members, with one exception, have their faces covered, and the backs of their robes do not appear to be cut open.
There was a Confraternita di Santa Caterina in Genoa in the 14th century, founded after the Confraternita di Sant'Antonio Abate.

The Child is scratching his left foot. Mother and Child are worshipped by a Dominican monk.
Signed.

Signed 'bnabas de mutina pinxit mccclxxvii'.
A magnificent work, still in wonderful condition, in the first chapel in the north aisle. The reflections on a sunny day rather defeated me.
The red brocade curtain which fomrs the background is particularly striking, with a distinct variation in the pattern to indicate folds. It is supported by two angels at the top of the painting.

The main panel shows the Madonna with the Baptist and St Catherine of Alexandria.
Above the main panel is a Crucifixion with the Virgin to the left, St John Evangelist to the right and Mary Magdalen at the foot of the cross.
In the spandrels of the main panel is an Annunication. Above the cross is the pelican in her piety.

There is an Annunciation in the spandrels. The background curtain is supported by angels, like that of the Alba painting.

The work was originally in the convent of San Giovanni del Fieri.
The Madonna is enthroned with the Child standing and blessing. The Child and the two seated angels hold scrolls.
The Child's scroll quotes Matthew 16:24 [Tunc Iesus dixit discipulis suis] 'si quis vult post me venire abneget semet ipsum et tollat crucem suam et sequatur me'.
A coral hangs round the neck of the Child. The ring on the Virgin's right hand is modelled with gesso and seems to have contained a gemstone.

Madonna Lactans, surrounded by angels holding the curtain and flanked by saints. It was commissioned by the wealthy Compagno family of Pisa.

Small panel with the Child scratching his left foot.
Signed BARNABAS.DEMUTINA.PINXIT