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
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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
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Mojmír S. Frinta, "Part I: Catalogue Raisonné of All Punch Shapes" Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting, Prague, 1998
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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
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Recommended Surfing
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https://punchmarks.net/ dedicated to the work of Erling Skaug, the website also has a great bibliography and glossary