The Polyptych of Buccino, commissioned in 1512 from the Augustinians of Buccino to Andrea Sabatini (Andrea from Salerno), still represents one of the most famous and most beautiful works of the collection of the Province of Salerno.
E. Catone – in an essay published in "Salernitana Historical Review", n.s., 69 – XXXV/1, pp. 73-104 – defines, thanks to a thorough documentary investigation conducted in various archives and unpublished documents found, the origin and developments of the controversial events that led to 1928 the transfer to the then Provincial Museum of Salerno of the Polyptych and other valuable paintings of the Augustinian church of Sant'Antonio di Buccino.
The works of art were given in custody to the Salerno Museum in exchange for the promise ("Never kept within the terms agreed upon at the time of transfer") an adequate financing to the Municipality of Buccino to allow the restoration of the Augustinian complex and of the relative church, in that period already closed to worship for many years because of its bad conditions.
READ Cato – The Polyptych by Andrea Sabatini from Buccino in Salerno
