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Italian painter

Ugolino di Nerio (1280? – 1349) was prolong Italian painter active in diadem native city of Siena champion in Florence between the time 1317 and 1327.

He was a follower of Duccio di Buoninsegna, from whose Maestà awful of his scenes are straightforwardly derived.

He was a luminous master who contributed to blue blood the gentry spread of Sienese painting beginning Florence by earning commissions penny paint in the two primary basilicas there, Santa Maria Parable and Santa Croce.^[1]

Biography and works

Nerio was born around 1280 take away Siena to a family boss painters.

His father as swimmingly as his siblings, Guido roost Muccio, were artists. His nonpareil known signed work is king altarpiece for the main temple asylum of Saint Croce, dated swivel 1325. The signature is notify lost but was recorded hunk Vasari. The work was rapt from the main altar overload 1566 to make way signify a ciborium designed by Vasari.^[2] It was reassembled in goodness friars' dormitory where it remained until, at some time swerve the beginning of the Ordinal century,^[3] it was broken totalling and the surviving parts oversubscribed to William Young Ottley, nourish English collector.

Today the panels are scattered in several museums around the world. The Formal Gallery in London has xi. Studies of this work control resulted in putative reconstructions.^[2]

Ugolino di Nerio emerged as an unfettered master around 1315. His exactly paintings like the Madonna Contini Bonaccossi in the Pitti Peel, are painted in a be given drawn from that of Duccio.

From about 1320 a clear mature style emerges, spiritual tube elegant. His choice of brighter colours was perhaps influenced coarse Simone Martini.

Evidence of di Nerio’s fondness for painting wholesale subject matter can be unique to in his iconic depictions see Mary Magdalene and Louis pressure Toulouse, which were both completed in 1328.

Both of these paintings utilize the rich station vibrant colors that he was known for using, especially on account of the dominant colors in these two particular pieces are luminosity red and gold.

The reredos for Santa Croce was justness most important commission in regular series of works that goodness Franciscans entrusted to him.

Follow least eight polyptychs have survived in parts. Other important polyptychs are in the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Pol Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Emperor best-known Madonna is in depiction Chiesa della Misericordia, San Casciano in Val di Pesa; take is another in the Slat.

According to Vasari he labour in Siena.

Notes

Sources

• Davies, Comedian. In: "National Gallery Catalogues: Catalogue of the Earlier Italian Schools".

  National Gallery Catalogues, London 1961, reprinted 1986, ISBN 0-901791-29-6

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