1921.8: Saint John the Baptist and Two Franciscans

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1921.8

People

Attributed to Ugolino di Nerio, called Ugolino da Siena, Italian (1317 - 1327)

Title

Saint John the Baptist and Two Franciscans

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

14th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Siena

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231655

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

45.5 x 32.2 x 3.5 cm (17 15/16 x 12 11/16 x 1 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: back of panel, black paint, handwritten: Gio. Battista Opera / Pinxit [ ]nza

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Loeser, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1921

Object Number

1921.8

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 207
• Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 132, 281, repr. b/w cat. no. 482
• Victor M. Schmidt, Painted Piety: Panel Paintings for Personal Devotion in Tuscany, 1250-1400, Centro Di (Florence, Italy, 2005), p. 115, repr. as fig. 65

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