Madonna and Child with Saint Dominic and Saint Martha of Bethany
Madonna and Child with Saint Dominic and Saint Martha of Bethany is a 1517-1520 oil on canvas painting by Andrea Previtali produced for the monastery of Santa Marta (dedicated to Saint Martha) in Bergamo and since 2010 in the collections of the UBI Banca in Bergamo.

No record of the work's commissioner survives, but other information on the work strongly suggests it was for the cell of a monk of the monastery of Santa Marta near the church of San Leonardo, such as its dimensions, too large for an ordinary private devotional altarpiece but too small for one commissioned by a church. Saint Martha has her usual attributes (a Tarasque and the bowl of holy water with which she tamed it) and wears a Dominican habit, whilst Saint Dominic on the left holds a model of a large three-naved 15th-century-style church, possibly representing the church of Santo Stefano in the city. This includes two figures in its doorway, possibly St Dominic himself and Saint Stephen in the red dalmatic of a deacon and a martyr. The artist had important contacts with the Dominicans of Bergamo which also led to a commission for an Annunciation fresco in Santo Stefano, lost in the church's destruction in 1561 to build the Venetian Walls

The art historian Carlo Marenzi also made a note on "Vite de' pittori, scultori e architetti bergamaschi" by Francesco Tassi describing the work as being in the home of Andrea Pasta, a historian active in Bergamo at the time of the monastery's suppression on 21 June 1798 and the French occupation and therefore in a position to save the work and his daughters:

The work then passed into Vincenzo Polli's collection until 1960, when it passed into a private collection and then to its present owners
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Q1097187
Andrea Previtali
PER
Q1476162
UBI Banca
ORG
Q628
Bergamo
LOC
None
San Leonardo
UNK
Q1063874
Tarasque
MISC
Q131479
Dominican
Concept
Q44091
Saint Dominic
MISC
Q161775
Saint Stephen
PER
Q607913
dalmatic
Concept
None
Santo Stefano
UNK
None
Venetian Walls
UNK
None
Carlo Marenzi
UNK
Q15672795
Francesco Tassi
PER
None
Andrea Pasta
UNK
Q213353
French occupation
LOC
Q55808404
Madonna and Child with Saint Dominic and Saint Martha of Bethany
Concept
1517-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1517
DATE
2010-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2010
DATE
1561-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1561
DATE
1798-06-21T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
21 June 1798
DATE
1960-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1960
DATE
-1520^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
-1520
NUMBER
+15^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
15
NUMBER
creator
collection
depicts
headquarters location
religious order