 Matteo's brand of eclecticism tended to evolve from local taste and tradition.For this reason it is not surprising to find him producing delicate, sweet panels of the Madonna and Child, such as the panel from the Kress Collection now in the Columbia Museum of Art, depicting the "Madonna and child with Saints Sebastian and Catherine of Siena", at almost the same moment that he was painting "Judith with the Head of Holofernes" (c.1490) now in the Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington and the horrific events of "The Massacre of the Innocents".Matteo di Giovanni died in Siena in 1495.