Saint Paul

Details

Circle of Lippo di Benivieni (active Florence 1296-1320)
Saint Paul
on gold ground panel, pointed top, in an integral frame
19 x 12¼ in. (48.2 x 31.1 cm.)

Provenance

Steinmeyer collection, Lucerne, from which acquired, as part of a larger complex (see below), in 1939 by
Edward Hutton (1875-1969), until 1951.

Literature

R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Paintings, III, IV, New York, pp. 137 and 139, as Pacino di Bonaguida.
M. Boskovits, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Paintings, III, IX, The Painters of the Miniaturist Tendency, Florence, 1984, pp. 32 and 183, pl. LVIII, as close to Lippo di Benivieni.
L.B. Kantor in the exhibition catalogue, Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994-5, p. 47 under no. 1.

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Lot Essay

Offner commented that the type was 'founded upon the conventions of the generation preceeding' that of Pacino di Bonaguida to whom he attributed the panel: allowing for its condition, Boskovits's view of its proximity to the work of Lippo is more plausible. Keith Christiansen observes that the design may depend on a prototype by Cimabue or an artist in his entourage. The panel formerly had a damaged companion of Saint Peter: both were formerly on the backs of the lateral panels of a triptych by Pacino (Boskovits, op. cit., III, VI, pl. XLI).

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