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Saint Cecilia
Bernardo Daddiaround 1340 - 1344
Museo Diocesano Milano
Milano, Italy
Details
- Title: Saint Cecilia
- Creator Lifespan: documented 1320 - 1348
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Birth Place: Florence
- Date: around 1340 - 1344
- Provenance: Alberto Crespi Collection
- Physical Dimensions: w49.5 x h89.5 cm (with frame)
- Painter: Bernardo Daddi
- Description: This panel was probably part of an altarpiece executed for the chapel of St. Bartholomew and St. Lawrence in the Florentine church of Santa Maria del Carmine. It would have been a pentaptych until it was dismembered before 1745 and subsequently put back together with the addition of two new panels. It seems that this particular panel was cut and that the Saint was originally full length like the other saints of the altarpiece. The polyptych was made up of the Madonna and Child and two angels playing musical instruments, now found in the Museum of Wawel in Cracow (formerly of the Lankoronski Collection). On either side of these central figures, aside from Saint Cecilia, were two panels with Saint Bartholomew and Saint Lawrence, now in the Galleria dell’Accademia, and a Saint Catherine of Alexandria, also cut, which is now in a German private collection. The commissioning of this work is a sign of the important role played by Daddi’s workshop, which held a monopoly in the production of altarpieces for the church mentioned above. The realization of the panel took place in a late stage of the artist’s career. The sumptuous details and delicate skin of the figure allow scholars to date the work to sometime before the altarpiece of Santa Maria Novella in 1344.
- Type: painting
- Rights: © Archivio fotografico Museo Diocesano, Milano
- Medium: tempera on wood
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