Different artists have been put forward as the author of this panel, such as Lorenzo Veneciano or Stefano di S. Agnese, and it currently figures as being anoymous and painted by an artist from the newly born Venetian school in about 1360. In it we can see the influence of the Sienese Trecento and certain features of the characteristic elegance of International Gothic. The Virgin and Child centre the composition, surrounded by angels. The iconographic type is the Virgin of Humility, who is suckling the Child, often painted in this period. Our attention is drawn by the figure of the donor -on a very reduced hierarchic scale- who is being pushed by death. A scroll indicates that "I(O)TI SO(N) P (RES) SO NO(N) POTRAI FUCIRE / STA SENPRE PRESTO (PER) DOV(ERE) MORIRE", the preparation of the human being for an inevitable death.
