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Saints Matthias and Thomas

Medium

Tempera on wood, gold ground

Dimensions

Overall, exclusive of modern frame additions, 20 7/8 x 18 1/8 in. (53 x 46 cm); painted surface 17 1/2 x 16 3/4 in. (44.5 x 42.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Classification

Paintings

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Rights

Public Domain

About Bartolomeo Bulgarini

1300–1378

Phases of Bartolommeo's career were formerly attributed to anonymous masters known as Ugolino Lorenzetti and the Master of the Ovile Madonna. Bartolommeo's early works were heavily influenced by Pietro Lorenzetti and Ugolino di Nerio. During the 1350s, he followed the fashion in Siena by returning to the two dimensionality, fluid lines, and decorative details of Simone Martini. He worked primarily in Tuscany, painting extensively for various Sienese churches, including five panels for Santa Maria della Scala, where he and his wife were lay members of its charitable society. He held minor public offices in Siena. He died on 4 September 1378. It was scholar Millard Meiss who first made the argument that the works attributed to both "The master of the Ovile Madonna" and "Ugolino Lorenzetti" might actually be by the same artist, Bulgarini. Comment on works: religious

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