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Saint Silvester Gozzolini

1320s
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 601

The presence of Saint Sylvester Gozzolini and Saint Benedict in the lateral panels of this dismembered altarpiece suggest that these fragments formed part of an important commission for an altar in a church of the Silvestrine order (a branch of the Benedictines founded in 1231). The figures above the central panel are Christ flanked by Saints Paul and Peter. Segna most likely trained in the Sienese workshop of his uncle Duccio di Buoninsegna. His figures are very different from the delicately nuanced, affectively human world Duccio explored, and reveal a somewhat austere and regal bearing of an earlier generation. Segna also retained the Byzantine web of gold striations on draperies to enhance the figures’ status as sacred icons.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Saint Silvester Gozzolini
  • Artist: Segna di Buonaventura (Italian, active Siena by 1298–died 1326/31)
  • Date: 1320s
  • Medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground
  • Dimensions: Overall, with framing elements, 49 x 21 in. (124.5 x 53.3 cm); Saint Silvester, painted surface 27 7/8 x 16 1/4 in. (70.8 X 41.3 cm); pinnacle, painted surface 10 x 15 5/8 in. (25.4 x 39.7 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924
  • Object Number: 24.78b
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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