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Ugolino di
Nerio: Saint Anne and the Virgin
by Laurence B. Kanter
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29 Stubblebine, op. cit., I, p. 173, II, fig. 426. R. Lehman, The
Philip Lehman Collection, New York (Paris: 1928), no. XVII.
30 See De Nicola, loc. cit., E. Francolini, Memorie di San
Casciano in Val di Pesa (Montepulciano: 1847); Vasari / Milanesi, I,
p. 454. Stubblebine, op. cit., I, pp. 168-169, accepts De Nicola's
thesis that Ugolino's panels were painted for Santa Maria Novella. He believes
that they formed parts of two different a!tarpieces, both distinct from
the one seen by Vasari, and that Ugolino painted all three of these altarpieces
in the same short space of time in which he also painted the high altarpiece
for Santa Croce (i.e., c. 1325). R. Offner, A Critical and Historical
Corpus of Florentine Painting, III:V (New York: 1947), p. 89, 110 n.
5, summarizes the known history of the altarpiece seen by Vasari, painted
after 1324 for the high altar and standing between c. 1485 and c. 1591
in the Spanish Chapel. That this altarpiece could in fact be the one today
in the Chiostro Verde at Santa Maria Novella, signed by Bernardo Daddi
in 1344, renovated shortly after 1485, and recorded as having come from
the Spanish Chapel before 1790 seems probable to this writer. Daddi's signature
was covered over by the fifteenth-century restorations, and revealed only
in 1938 (Offner, p. 88). To assume Vasari was mistaken in his attribution
is not unreasonable.
31 Vasari / Milanesi, I, p. 455, as 1349. In the first edition of the
Lives this date appears as 1339, which was repeated by all subsequent
writers. I. Ugurgieri- Azzolini, Le Pompe Sanese (Pistoia: 1649),
p. 330, says of Ugolino, "...fù sepolto in Siena l'anno 1339. con
questo breve Epitaffia: PICTOR DIVINUS IACET HOC SUB SAXO VGOLINUS / CUI
DEUS ATERNUM [sic] TRIBUAT VITAMSUPERNAM."
32 J. Pope-Hennessy, Italian Gothic Sculpture, 2nd ed. (London:
1972), pp. 198-199, dates Giovanni di Balduccio's arrival in Milan before
1335. The document of that year, however, refers only to a resolution to
build the Arca and to raise money for that purpose; it does not refer to
work already in progress. R. Valentiner, "Giovanni di Balduccio a Firenze," L'Arte
n. s. vi (1935), pp. 3-29, notes the hurried character of
the sculpture on the Arca and consequently dates Balducci's departure
for Milan to 1338.
33 M. Boskovits, "A Dismembered Polyptych, Lippo Vanni and Simone Martini," Burlington
Magazine, CXVI (1974), p. 376. Boskovits (p. 372
n. 26) doubts the authenticity of the historical notice dating the foundation
of Santa Maria al Prato at San Casciano to 1335, and would like to date
the Crucifix and the pulpit to the 1320s.
34 Stubblebine, op. cit., I, p. 161, II, fig. 388. The fragmentary
predella at Lucca (Stubblebine, op. cit., pp. 159-160, figs 375-382,
29 x 200 cm), which includes a bust-length figure of Saint Louis of Toulouse,
originally stood beneath another heptaptych by Ugolino, the centre panel
of which is likely to have been the Tadini Madonna. The latter,
then, would also have to be dated to 1317 or after.
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