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UGOLINO DI NERIO (active 1317, Siena, d. 1339/49, Siena) |
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David1325-28Egg tempera on wood, 55 x 31 cm National Gallery, London | |
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 above the paired Sts Bartholomew and Andrew (National Gallery, London). King David, wearing a crown and an ermine-lined robe, holds a scroll in one hand and with the other makes a rhetoric gesture. The letters on the scroll presumably once read as a quotation from a Psalm. |
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