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

David

1325-28
Egg 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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