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| Title | Saint Lawrence | |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum | |
| Artist | Attributed to Niccolò di Buonaccorso (Italian painter, active 1356, died 1388) Attributed to Paolo di Giovanni Fei (Italian painter, ca. 1345 - ca. 1411) Previously attributed to Jacopo di Mino del Pellicciaio (Italian painter, active 1344-1389) |
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| Date Earliest | probably about 1350 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1380 | |
| Description | St Lawrence is one of the most celebrated Roman martyrs. He refused to hand over the church's valuables when ordered to do so by the city perfect. Instead he assembled the poor and sick and presented them to the perfect, claiming that they were the church's treasure. Thereupon he was put to death by roasting on a grid iron. This instrument of torture is included in the picture to enable worshippers to identify the saint. The elaborate gold leaf background, symbolising the light of heaven, is typical of Sienese painting of this period. The arched top of the work indicates that it is probably a fragment of a polyptich. | |
| Current Accession Number | 3359 | |
| Subject | figure; religion (St Lawrence) | |
| Measurements | 63.5 x 30.5 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | tempera; gold on panel | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Mr Lewis Lyons 1980. | |
| Provenance | 'A princely Gotha family' (Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg) in the Landesmuseum, Gotha 'for 100 years' up to 1932; anon. sale, Paul Graupe, Berlin, 1932, lot 3; Sotheby's, London, 1932(?), lot 110, as Fei, bought Oakleys for £20 [?]; 'During Second World War' sold anon. sale, McChlenys, Glasgow, 'During Second World War', bought Lyons. | |
| Publications | Berenson, B., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 183, as by Fei, in the collections of the Landesmuseum, Gotha; Berenson, B., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London, 1968, vol. 1, p. 128, as by Fei, from Gotha Museum; Mallory, M., Paolo di Giovanni Fei, PhD dissertation, Columbia University, New York, 1965; Frinta, M. S., 'Deletions from the Oeuvre of Pietro Lorenzetti and Related Works by the Master of the Beata Umilt`a, Mino Parcis da Siena, and Jacopo di Mino del Pellicciaio', Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol. 20, no. 3, 1976, pp. 292-93, ill. 294, as by Jacopo di Mino; Meiss, M., Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death: The Arts, Religion, and Society in the Mid-Fourteenth Century, Princeton, 195, p. 171, n. 23, as by Niccolò di Buonaccorso; Boskovits, M., 'Su Niccolò di Buonaccorso, Benedetto di Bindo e la pittura senese del primo Quattrocento', Paragone, 1980, pp. 6-7, n. 18, as a late work of Niccolò di Buonaccorso; Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum: The Building and the Collections: with an Introduction by Alasdair A. Auld, London and Glasgow, 1987, p. 102, ill. 1; Palladino, P., Art and Devotion in Siena after 1350, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, 1997, pp. 54, 77, n. 109, fig. 54, as by Niccolò di Buonaccorso, about 1370-75. | |
| Notes | Label on the back 'Paul Graupe Berlin 21 December 1932'. Attributed to Niccolò di Buonaccorso and dated 'earlier than ... 1387' by John Pope-Hennessy and Larry Kanter in a letter of 6 May 1982 contained in the museum's files, and on the basis of the type of the punch marks by M. Frinta to Jacopo di Mino di Pellicciaio. |
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| Rights Owner | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) | |
| Author | Dr Heiner Krellig | |