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
Tonnie Bakkenist,. ed., Early Italian Paintings: Techniques and Analysis, (Symposium, Maastricht, October 1996), Limburg Conservation Institute, 1996
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
Nathaniel Silver, ed., Simone Martini in Orvieto, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2022