Tabernacle frame

Unknown

second quarter 14th century · Pine. Gold-orange bole. · Robert Lehman Collection

The shallow molding profile of this engaged frame provides a gentle transition to the punched borders of the painting, a "Madonna and Child'" formerly attributed to Naddo Ceccarelli (fl. 1340s). The compressed ogee molding is refined with two lines of punching above and below it that echo the punched haloes and drapery of the Madona and Child. The summary acanthus leaves on the gabled outline of the frame are like a ripple of light surmounting the painting. In the nineteenth century this panel was attached to two rectangular panels also in the Robert Lehman Collection, one depicting Saint Michael, the other Saint Nicholas of Bari, that are attributed ot Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio (ca. 1409–49).

Artist

Unknown

Date

second quarter 14th century

Medium

Pine. Gold-orange bole.

Culture

Italian, Siena

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975