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Episode 7 - Half-Solidified Sunlight

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

Niccolò di Tommaso, Triptych of Saint Bridget’s Vision of the Nativity, c. 1375

Tempera and tooled gold on panel with vertical grain, 25 x 30 ½ in (63.5 x 77.5 cm)

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Bernardo Daddi, La Madonna del Magnificat, 1335-37

Tempera and gold on panel

Vatican Museums

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

Master of the Sienese Straus Madonna, Virgin and Child, c 1340-50

Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 32 1/8 × 17 3/4 in. (81.6 × 45.1 cm)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Pietro Lorenzetti , Saint Catherine of Alexandria, shortly after 1342

Tempera on wood, gold ground, 26 x 16 1/4 in. (66 x 41.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Simone Martini, Saint Ansanus, ca. 1326

Tempera on wood, gold ground, 22 5/8 x 15 in. (57.5 x 38.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Bernardo Daddi, Saint Paul and a Group of Worshippers, 1333

Tempera on panel, 91 15/16 × 34 15/16 in (233.53 × 88.8 cm)

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano, Madonna and Child with Angels, 1420

Tempera on wood, gold ground, 34 5/8 x 26 1/4 in. (87.9 x 66.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Taddeo Gaddi, Saint Julian, 1340s

Tempera on wood, gold ground, 21 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (54 x 36.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Recommended Reading

Mojmír S. Frinta, "Part I: Catalogue Raisonné of All Punch Shapes" Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting, Prague, 1998

Erling Skaug, Punch Marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico. Attribution, Chronology, and Workshop Relationships in Tuscan Panel Painting c.1330-1430, With particular consideration to Florence, I-II, Oslo, 1994

Recommended Surfing

https://punchmarks.net/     dedicated to the work of Erling Skaug, the website also has a great bibliography and glossary

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