Ugolino was a pupil of Duccio, the preeminent painter in fourteenth-century Siena and a pivotal figure in early Renaissance art. He may have assisted Duccio in painting the ""Maestà," the celebrated altarpiece for Siena Cathedral, completed in 1311. The present painting, which formed the center panel of a polyptych (multi-paneled altarpiece) was modeled upon the Madonna and Child in the "Maesta," and Ugolino may have used templates to transfer the design.
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Title:Madonna and Child
Artist:Workshop of Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) (Italian, Siena, active by 1317–died ?1339/49)
Date:ca. 1325
Medium:Tempera on wood, gold ground
Dimensions:Arched top, 35 3/8 x 23 in. (89.9 x 58.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Object Number:1975.1.5
Earl of Haddigton, East Linton, Scotland (said to have been purchased in Siena about 1860); R. Langton Douglas, London; Philip Lehman, New York, 1920; Pauline Ickelheimer, New York. Acquired by Robert Lehman in 1946.
Raimond van Marle. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. Vol. 2, The Hague, 1924, pp. 147-153.
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Lionello Venturi. Pitture italiane in America. Milan, 1931, Pl. 18.
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Curt H. Weigelt. "Berichte über die Sitzung des Institutes." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 3 (1931), p. 357.
Bernhard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 295.
George Harold Edgell. A History of Sienese Painting. New York, 1932, p. 61, fig. 58.
Bernard Berenson. Pitture italiane del Rinascimento: catalogo dei principali artisti e delle loro opere con un indice dei luoghi. Valori plastici, Milan, 1936, p. 501.
Cesare Brandi. Duccio. Florence, 1951, p. 155 n. 34.
Paintings and Bronzes from the Collection of Mr. Robert Lehman. Exh. cat., Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Colorado Springs, 1951, Pl. 4.
Dorothy C. Shorr. The Christ Child in Devotional Images in Italy During the XIV Century. New York, 1954, p. 153.
Gertrude Coor-Achenbach. "Contributions to the Study of Ugolino di Nerio's Art." Art Bulletin 37 (September 1955), pp. 153-165.
Charles Sterling, ed. Exposition de la collection Lehman de New York. Exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, 1957, no 55.
The Lehman Collection. Exh. cat.Cincinnati, 1959, no. 6.
Bernard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools. Vol. 1, London, 1968, p. 438.
George Szabó. The Robert Lehman Collection: A Guide. New York, 1975, p. 15, pl. 4.
James H. Stubblebine. Duccio di Buoninsegna and His School. Princeton, 1979, p. 170.
John Pope-Hennessy assisted by Laurence B. Kanter inThe Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 1, Italian Paintings. New York, 1987, pp. 13-15, no. 6.
Virginia Jackson. Art Museums of the World: Norway-Zaire. Vol. 2, Westport, CT, 1987, p. 1274.
Robert B. Simon. "Review of The Robert Lehman Collection, I: Italian Paintings by John Pope Hennessy and Laurence B. Kanter." Renaissance Quarterly 42 (1989), p. 121.
Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 44.
Alessandro Bagnoli inDuccio: Siena fra tradizione bizantina e mondo gotico. [Milan], 2003, p. 375.
Alessandro Bagnoli inDuccio: alle origini della pittura senese. Ed. Alessandro Bagnoli et al. Exh. cat., Santa Maria della Scala, Siena. Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, 2003, p. 349.
Master of Saint Francis (Italian, Umbria, active third quarter 13th century)
1266–75
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