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

Moses

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 Matthew and James the Less (Staatliche Museen, Berlin).

Moses is unfurling a sroll with a Latin inscription that reads: "I saw that the bush was burning and was not consumed."




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