The Benedetto Portinari Triptych is a group of three 1487 oil on panel paintings by
Hans Memling. It is named after its commissioner, who is probably the subject of its right-hand panel, now in the
Uffizi in Florence. The left panel of
Saint Benedict (Portinari's name-saint) and the central panel of the Madonna and Child are both now in the
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.[1] All three panels are set within a single
loggia, with a unified landscape background across all three, which proved a major influence on
Umbrian painters,
Perugino and
Leonardo da Vinci.
The right-hand panel is not definitely Portinari (1466-1551) but the identification is highly probable, particularly due to a label on the reverse showing his motto DE BONO DANS MELIVS. Portinari is thought to have commissioned the work in
Bruges. The Benedetto Portinari Triptych was taken to
Florence to decorate the church of Sant'Egidio within the
Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, of which Portinari was patron.[2]