Group D: 3 Framing/Framing Guidlines/Diptych with tabernacle frames - LRB

Company Name: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Style: Diptych with tabernacle frames
Address: The Met 82nd Street
Website: http://metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/150007261?rpp=20&pg=1&gallerynos=952&ft=*&pos=12

Products Information / model numbers: Frames
Special Remarks:

Date:

ca. 1400–1410

Culture:

Sienese

Medium:

Poplar. Carved, gilt; red-orange bole.

Dimensions:

Overall, left, 46.5 x 19.8 cm, right, 46.9 x 19.6 cm; sight, both 40.6 x 16.5 cm; engaged.

Classification:

Frames

• Description
  The gable ornament on this diptych by Paolo di Giovanni Fei (see also 1975.1.23b), with paterae that have been regessoed, regilt, and repunched, appears to be too bold for the paitnigns: a "Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, Saints James the Great and John the Baptist, and the Annunciatory Angel" (left wing) and a "Crucified Christ with the Virgin, Saint Mary Magdelene, Saint John the Evangelist, and the Virgin Annunciate" (right wing). The undisturbed pastiglia moldings are well balanced and in proportion to the tondi in the central gables and the scale of the figures in the paintings.