Umbrian Follower of Giotto, circa 1335
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Umbrian Follower of Giotto, circa 1335

A portable Triptych: The Crucifixion with the Magdalen at the foot of the Cross The Crucifixion, in the central compartment Saint Peter, the Angel of the Annunciation in the left hand compartment Saint Catherine of Alexandria, the Virgin Annunciate above in the right hand compartment

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Umbrian Follower of Giotto, circa 1335
A portable Triptych: The Crucifixion with the Magdalen at the foot of the Cross
The Crucifixion, in the central compartment
Saint Peter, the Angel of the Annunciation in the left hand compartment Saint Catherine of Alexandria, the Virgin Annunciate above in the right hand compartment
tempera on gold ground panel, shaped tops
centre: 21½ x 11 1/8in. (54.6 x 28.3cm.):
left: 20¼ x 4½in. (51.4 x 11.4cm.)
right: 20 1/8 x 4½in. (51.1 x 11.4cm.)

Lot Essay

We are indebted to Everett Fahy, who on the basis of a photograph, suggests that this triptych is by one of the local painters influenced by Giotto who worked in the lower church of San Francesco at Assisi: he points to iconographic and stylistic parallels in a triptych formerly in the von Kaufmann collection, Berlin (F. Todini, la pittura umbra dal Duecento al primo Cinquecento, Milan, 1989, II, fig. 207 as by the Master of the Perugia Madonna) and characterizes the picture as falling in style between Puccio Capanna, who worked in Assisi, and Meo da Sienna, who was based at Perugia by 1319.

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