Ugolino di Nerio

Ugolino di Nerio (1280? - 1349) was an Italian painter most active in Siena between the years 1317 to 1327.

External links

* [http://www.nationalgalleryimages.co.uk/search.aspx?q=UGOLINO+di+Nerio&mode=artist&frm=1 UK National Gallery] , Picture library of some of the artist's works.
* [http://www.clarkart.edu/museum_programs/featuredObjectDetail.cfm?ID=8&nav=3 Clark Art Institute] , An altarpiece painted by the artist.

Ugolino di Nerio was active an Italian painter to Siena of which news is had solo from 1317 to 1327. With to He marks of Bonaventura was most faithful of follows us of Duccio di Buoninsegna. Fecund one and of great reputation has been a painter much, that it has contributed to the affirmation of the senese painting to Florence with prestigious commission for the greater altars of the two main basilicas, Saint Maria Novel and Croce Saint, in contemporary with the return in city of Giotto, than just to Croce Saint independent school had created around himself one.

Biography and works [modification] Been born presumablly to Siena around 1280, it made part of one family of painters with the Nerio father and the siblings pure Guido and Muccio artists. The Vasari the dedication a cenmno in its Screw, places like date of died 1349.

Only its signed work is a dated polittico 1325 for the greater altar of the basilica of Croce Saint to Florence, today smembrato and dispersed in several foreign museums. On the base of the study of this work it has been attributed folta a series to it of jobs and has been reconstructed its artistic distance beginning from the collaboration with Duccio to celebre the Maestà of the Cathedral of Siena (1308-1311), today to the Museum of the Metropolitan Work of the Dome. The hand of the student has been recognized in the envelopes of the apostles of the advanced part.

The artistic autonomy would have to go back to 1315, with some first juvenile paintings like the Madonna Contini Bonaccossi di Palazzo Pitti, from the forts drawn to the way of Duccio, but already from 1320 approximately its style it is defined mainly and it is arrived to the artistic maturity, characterized from one strongly spiritualità of the subjects and the remarkable elegance of the figures.

Also the choice of the more shining colors regarding its master it is peculiar, perhaps influenced from the activity Simone Martini. Between the works of this phase they have been recognized some Madonne, one to the Lehman Collection and a church of the Servants of Montepulciano, nearest the monumental table for Croce Saint, than with its very seven buckets with the Vergine and you vary Knows to you, had to be one of the most spectacular polittici of the 1300s.

Vasari saw this shovel in its positioning originates them and attributed to Ugolino also an other table, that it declared to have seen in the nail head Bards of the same church, let alone a polittico for the church of Saint Maria Novel, today dispersed and not still identified, to part the zone centers them with the Madonna with the Child who finds in the church of the Misericordia to Saint Casciano Val di Pesa.

But the altar of Croce Saint was not epoisodio a block, but it was the more important commission in a series of works that the Franciscans entrusted to it: today they have been characterizes at least eight polittici to you smembra several you in museums or survivors solo as riconducibili fragments to its style and fruit of such commission like the buckets with Saint Peter and San Francisco, always in the church of the Misericordia di San Casciano Val di Pesa who probably made part of one retort in smaller tone of the great polittico of Croce Saint.