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