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

Daniel

1325-28
Tempera and gold on wood, 54 x 31 cm
Museum of Art, Philadelphia

This painting is one of the pinnacle panels of the now dismembered altarpiece painted by Ugolino di Nerio for the Franciscan church of Santa Croce, Florence. According to a nineteenth-century drawing attributed to Humbert de Superville, it was placed at the far right above the paired Sts Matthias and Elizabeth of Hungary (Staatliche Museen, Berlin).

The Prophet Daniel holds a scroll. The Latin inscription on the scroll is derived from Daniel 2:45 and translates, "stone was cut out of the mountain without hands."




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