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Title:Saint Matthew
Artist:Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) (Italian, Siena, active by 1317–died ?1339/49)
Date:ca. 1330–1335
Medium:Tempera on wood, gold ground
Dimensions:15 1/8 x 12 3/4 in. (38.4 x 32.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Object Number:1975.1.6
F. Mason Perkins, Lastra a Signa (before 1908). Acquired by Philip Lehman in 1913.
Joseph Archer Crowe and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle. A New History of Painting in Italy: from the Second to the Sixteenth Century. Vol. 1, London, 1908, pp. 50-52.
F. Mason Perkins. "Alcuni appunti sulla Galleria delle Belle Arti di Siena." Rassegna d'arte senese 4 (1908), p. 51.
Edward Hutton, ed. A New History of Painting in Italy from the II to the XVI Century.. By [Joseph Archer] Crowe and [Giovanni Battista] Cavalcaselle. Vol. 2, The Sienese School of the XIV Century; The Florentine School of the XV Century. London, 1909, p. 20, no. 3.
Curt H. Weigelt. Duccio di Buoninsegna. Leipzig, 1911, pp. 186, 262, Pl. 50.
V. Lusini. "Catalogo dei dipinti." Rassegna d'arte senese 8 (1912), pp. 60-98.
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Raimond van Marle. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. Vol. 2, The Hague, 1924, pp. 104-105, fig. 66.
Robert Lehman. The Philip Lehman Collection, New York: Paintings. Paris, 1928, Pl. 28.
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Richard Offner. An Exhibition of Italian Panels & Manuscripts from the Thirteenth & Fourteenth Centuries in Honor of Richard Offner. Exh. cat.Hartford, 1965, no. 20.
Bernard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools. Vol. 1, London, 1968, p. 438.
Mojmir Frinta. "Note on the Punched Decoration of Two Early Painted Panels at the Fogg Museum." Art Bulletin 53 (1971), p. 306, n. 5.
George Szabó. The Robert Lehman Collection: A Guide. New York, 1975, p. 29, pl. 5.
James H. Stubblebine. Duccio di Buoninsegna and His School. Princeton, 1979, p. 173.
Laurence B. Kanter. "Ugolino di Nerio: Saint Anne and the Virgin." National Gallery of Canada, Annual Bulletin 5 (1981–82), pp. 22-24.
John Pope-Hennessy assisted by Laurence B. Kanter inThe Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 1, Italian Paintings. New York, 1987, pp. 11-13, no. 5.
Erling S. Skaug. Punch Marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico: Attribution, Chronology, and Workshop Relationships in Tuscan Panel Painting. Oslo, 1994, p. 220.
Norman E. Muller. "Reflections on Ugolino da Nerio's Santa Croce Polyptych." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 57 (1994), pp. 45, 72.
Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 44.
Mojmír S. Frinta. "Part I: Catalogue Raisonné of All Punch Shapes." Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting. Prague, 1998, pp. 200, 263, 419, 445, 495, 496.
Niccolò di Buonaccorso (Italian, active Siena by 1372–died 1388 Siena)
ca. 1380
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