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Materials:

tempera on panel

Size Notes:

panel: 25 by 12 ? in.; 63.5 by 31.6 cm.

Edition:

This Florentine masters eponymous work is a triptych painted for the sacristy in San Niccol d'Oltrarno in Florence. Richard Offner was the first to compile a list of this artists works in his 1933 Burlington article in which he reviewed a group of works presented in Saint Mark's convent in Florence. Offner places this rare master firmly in the ambient of Orcagna, the great inheritor of the Giottesque tradition in Florence, noting that he was "gifted beyond the rule of his contemporaries" (see Literature).

Description:

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Markings:

The following condition report has been provided by Matt Hayes of Pietro Edwards Society of Art Conservation, 119 West 23rd Street, Suite 400, New York, NY 10011, 212-457-8956, [email protected], an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. The painting is in very good state. These are the wings of a triptych joined together in a modern wooden frame. The inner (open) sides remain intact. The gilding is in very good condition, with only slight wear and a few points of greater abrasion, as in the punchwork of the crucifixion and at the proper right. There is some regilding to the molding, and a few small losses there that are not retouched. The paint film is likewise in generally very good state. There are scattered small losses mostly at the edges of cracks, notably in the Nativity. Some wear can be seen in the mordant gilt ornament at the lower edge. Scattered retouching is present throughout, most significantly in the whitish robe of St. John. The varnish is clear, perhaps very slightly discolored, and the gloss even. The reverse (originally the exterior of the wings, visible in the closed state of the triptych) has been repainted, probably in the eighteenth century. This was done over the original paint, of which tracescentral roundels with punchworkcan be seen in the surface. The paint is in good condition. There is some wear and scattered retouching, and the coating on this side is slightly discolored. There is some mechanical damage at the panel edges commensurate with their use, especially on the profile molding. A small hole below the angel's raised hand in the Annunciation indicates a slight amount of earlier woodworm activity, now ceased. The frame is in excellent condition.

Condition:

framed: 27 by 13 in; 68.6 by 34.3 cm.