Pinnacle panel of an altarpiece: Christ Blessing

Artist Niccolò di Segna Italian, active Siena, documented 1331–1348

Datecirca 1330–1340

MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel

Dimensions17 7/8 x 14 1/4 in. (45.4 x 36.2 cm)
Frame: 24 5/8 x 17 1/2 x 2 in. (62.5 x 44.5 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.2

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Provenance[Chiesa plebana (pieve) of S. Giovanni Battista, San Giovanni d'Asso;] Pannilini brothers, S. Giovanni d'Asso, by 1904; Conte della Gherardesca, Florence; Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Collection, New York, 1932; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to NCMA, 1960.Published ReferencesMostra dell' antica arte senese, Siena, [______________]1904

In Onore di Duccio di Buoninsegna e della sua Scuola (Siena, 1913), 129.

Raimond van Marle, La Diana (1931), 58, illus. pl. 3.

"Italian Paintings Lent by Mr. Kress for Wide Display," Art News 31, no. 12 (December 17, 1932), 11.

Alfred M. Frankfurter, "Fine Italian Paintings from Kress Exhibition," Art News 32, no. 22 (March 3, 1934), 8-9.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 20, illus. (b-w) 21 (as Sienese Master, Early XIV Century).

Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian, XIII - XV Centuries. Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1966), 16, illus. fig. 35.

Federico Zeri, " The Literature of Art: Early Italian Paintings in the Kress Collection," Burlington Magazine 109, no. 773 (August 1967), 474.

Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection; Italian, XIII - XV Centuries. Vol. 3 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968), 381-2.

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Central and North Italian Schools 1 (London, 1968), 119.

Theological Encyclopedia, Vol. 10 (Gastonia, NC: Good Will Publishing Co., 1970), illus.

Hendrik W. van Os, "Possible Additions to the Work of Niccolò di Segna." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (March 1972), 78-83, illus. 81.

Haydon B. J. Maginnis, "Una Madonna col Bambino di Niccolò di Segna a Cortona," Arte Illustrata 7, no. 58 (July 1974), 214.

Cleveland European catalogue (1974), 135-7.

James H. Stubblenine, Duccio di Buoninsegna and His School (Princeton, 1979), Vol. 1, 155 (as Sansepolcro Master); Vol. 2, 536.

Laurence B. Kanter, Italian Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Volume 1, 13th - 15th century (Boston, 1994), 83 fn. 1 (ties this panel to the triptych in Pienza).

Perri Lee Roberts, Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections: The South, Vol. 3 (Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2009), discussed 648, illus. (b-w) 649.
Exhibition HistorySiena, 1904, no.13.

Siena, 1912, no. 66-68 (with Cleveland; NCMA no. 67).

Atlanta, GA, The High Museum of Art, "An Exhibition of Italian Paintings Lent by Mr. Samuel H. Kress of New York;" Charlotte: The Mint Museum; San Antonio, TX: Witte Memorial Museum, October 1932-June 1935, illus. 1 (as Ugolino da Siena).

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Painting and Sculture from the Kress Collection, 1941-1952 (1941), cat. no. 215 (as Ugolino da Siena).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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