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Source Description
The workshop of Agnolo Gaddi produced this panel painting with two saints, which originally occupied the right side of a large polyptych (a painting group made up of several panels). Agnolo Gaddi combined the bold, monumental style of murals with the delicate, linear technique of panel painting. The overlapping forms of the saints' bodies and their union in a single panel are innovations that painters used to create a sense of depth and three-dimensional volume toward the end of the fourteenth century. Agnolo Gaddi (d. 1369) traced his artistic ancestry back to Giotto through his father Taddeo (d. 1366).
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Document identity
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24932
label
Saint James the Greater and Saint Peter
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obj
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drawing
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Source metadata
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24932
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drawing
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normalized
title
Saint James the Greater and Saint Peter
description
The workshop of Agnolo Gaddi produced this panel painting with two saints, which originally occupied the right side of a large polyptych (a painting group made up of several panels). Agnolo Gaddi combined the bold, monumental style of murals with the delicate, linear technique of panel painting. The overlapping forms of the saints' bodies and their union in a single panel are innovations that painters used to create a sense of depth and three-dimensional volume toward the end of the fourteenth century. Agnolo Gaddi (d. 1369) traced his artistic ancestry back to Giotto through his father Taddeo (d. 1366).
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [1881 catalogue: no. 18 as Tuscan School, 14th century; 1897 catalogue: no. 67 as school of Giotto]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1375 (Medieval)
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
panel paintings
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
146.5
height
45.5
depth
3
dimensionsRaw
H with frame: 57 11/16 x W: 17 15/16 x D: 1 3/16 in. (146.5 x 45.5 x 3 cm); Painted surface H: 52 1/2 x W: 14 15/16 in. (133.3 x 38 cm)
style
Gothic
Source extras
med
tempera and gold leaf on panel
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none
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MED
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none
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1
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0
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photo
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