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The dignity to which the town aspires is there in the simple interior, illuminated by the magnificent Mantegna triptych (1459) on the high altar; two of its panels are in London.
Notable in the collections are a Fra Angelico triptych, Raphael’s La Fornarina (though the authorship is disputed), and works by Titian, Tintoretto, and El Greco.
His Flemish contemporary Hugo van der Goes is more down-to-earth in the realism of his huge triptych Adoration of the Shepherds (1478), which influenced Florentine painters like Ghirlandaio.
While the left and right panels of the triptych are in bold shades of color, the central panel is rendered in accurate red-green isoluminance.
In the austere 16th–17th century cathedral, see Taddeo di Bartolo’s fine triptych on the high altar.