Episode 6 - Sinew and Stone
Duccio di Buoninsegna, Madonna and Child, ca. 1290–1300
Tempera and gold on wood, 11 x 8 1/4 in. (27.9 x 21 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Simone Martini, Virgin and Child with Saints Helen, Paul, Dominic, Stephen (?), and a Dominican Nun, c 1325
Tempera and tooled gold on panel, 13 1/8 x 10 x ¾ in (33.4 x 25.4 x 1.9 cm)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Simone Martini, Annunciation, 1333
Tempera and gold on wood, 120 x 104 in (305 x 265 cm)
Uffizi Galleries, Florence
Spinello Aretino, Saint Philip, 1384–85
Tempera and gold on wood, 20 3/4 x 7 3/8 in. (52.7 x 18.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bernardo Daddi, Santa Reparata Before the Emperor Decius, c. 1338-40
Tempera and gold on panel, 12 ¾ x 16 in (32.4 x 40.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Recommended Reading
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Tonnie Bakkenist,. ed., Early Italian Paintings: Techniques and Analysis, (Symposium, Maastricht, October 1996), Limburg Conservation Institute, 1996
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Beate Federspiel, “Questions about Medieval Gesso Grounds,” in Wallert, Hermens and Peek, eds., Historical Painting Techniques, Materials and Studio Practice: Preprints of a Symposium, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 1995
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Nathaniel Silver, ed., Simone Martini in Orvieto, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2022