Attributed to MICHELE di MATTEO (active 1409-1 467) - Lot 7

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Attributed to MICHELE di MATTEO (active 1409-1 467) - Lot 7
Attributed to MICHELE di MATTEO (active 1409-1 467) Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Lucy Egg painting and gold ground on poplar panel, one board, reinforced (one fragment) Height: 30 cm Width: 15.7 cm Modern black and gilded wood frame Old restorations These two saints, recognizable by their attributes - the stigmata of St. Francis and the martyr's sword of St. Lucy, who had her throat slit - have been painted in a modern gilded wood frame. painted on a panel of reduced proportions, must have been part of a single devotional panel. of a single devotional panel or the centerpiece of a small triptych. On the right, on a pedestal, a central Madonna and Child, with only her clothes visible. Our panel can be compared with the ten Saints attributed to Michele di Matteo and kept at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (cf. M. Boskovits, Frühe Italienische Malerei, Berlin 1988, pp. 137-140), which may have belonged to the large altarpiece belong to the large altarpiece this artist painted in Venice for the church of St. Helena (Venice, Accademia). whose date, estimated between 1428 and 1436, corresponds to the period when documents concerning Michele's activity in Bologna. St. Francis and St. Lucy offer the same stretched bodies clothed in draperies with wide, deep folds, the same hands the same hands with tapered fingers and an identical taste for a refined range of colors. The oblong faces pierced by large, pensive eyes, are unusual and border on the grotesque. than the above-mentioned saints, but display the expressive characteristics inherent in early 15th-century Bolognese to which Michele di Matteo belongs.
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