PUCCINELLI, Angelo
(active 1380-1407 in Lucca)

Virgin and Child

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Wood
Musée Jacquemart-André, Abbaye de Chaalis

Puccinelli combined innovation - vigorous, monumental figures - with traditional decorative gold backgrounds marked by elaborate, punched patterns. The bodies of his figures display a hard linearity. Perhaps inspired by such artists as Luca di Tommè, Puccinelli enlarged his figures to fill the field. The physical presence and solid three-dimensionality of his figures was unusual among the Tuscan painters of his day.