The two saints depicted in this panel were likely part of an ensemble that presented an important scene from the life of Christ or of the Virgin Mary at center, with another pair of saints on the opposite side. Anthony the Abbot, a Christian saint from Egypt considered to be the founder of monasticism, is depicted with a walking stick. Saint Peter holds his attribute, a pair of keys, which refer to Christ's words to the apostle in Matthew 16:19: "I will give to thee the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven." As a Tuscan artist working in late 14th-century Florence, Niccolo di Pietro Gerini continued the traditions of his predecessor Giotto, whose style was highly favored by his patrons.
Details
- Artist Name: Niccolo di Pietro Gerini (Italian, active 1368-1415)
- Title: Saints Anthony and Peter
- Date: c. 1390-95
- Medium: Tempera on panel
- Dimensions: 46-3/4 x 30 in. (118.7 x 76.2 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
- Accession Number: M.1979.50.P
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation
Object Information
Nicodemo Grassi, Florence.
Private collection, near Venice by 1946.
Dr. E. Limongelli, Rome, by at least 1971.
(sale, Rome, Finarte, 12-13 December 1973, lot 69, as Nicolò di Pietro Gerini, Sant’Antonio Abate e San Pietro).
(sale, Paris, Palais Galliera, 21 June 1974, lot 13, as attributed to Niccoló di Pietro Gerini, Saint Antoine et Saint Pierre, bought-in);
(sale, Paris, Palais Galliera, 7 April 1976, lot 22, as attributed to Niccolo di Pietro Gerini, Saint Antoine et Saint Pierre, to);
[Sylvia Blatas, buying for];
Norton Simon, Los Angeles, N.76.16.2.P., gift 1979 to;
Norton Simon Art Foundation.
[on loan]
- New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1976-05 to 1976-10
- Offner, Richard, Art in America, p. 237
- Boskovits, Miklòs, Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento 1370-1400, 1975, p. 414
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 1326 p. 394
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