UGOLINO DI NERIO
(active 1317, Siena, d. 1339/49, Siena)

Sts Simon and Thaddeus (detail)

1325-28
Egg tempera on wood
National Gallery, London

The heads in the quatrefoils below the paired saints (above the main tier figures) are not securely identified. They are a mixture of prophets, patriarchs and monks. None of the figures has a halo, and some of them wear secular contemporary dress.

The picture shows one of the heads below Sts Simon and Thaddeus.




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