The Nativity
Puccio di Simone
ca. 1350
Medium
Tempera on wood, gold ground
Dimensions
7 7/8 x 15 in. (20 x 38.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.105
Tags
JesusNativitySaintsVirgin Mary
About the Artist
Puccio di Simone · 1340–1362
Puccio di Simone (active by ca. 1340–1362) was a prominent Italian Gothic painter based in Florence during the mid-14th century. Little is known of his early life, which remains sparsely documented, but by 1346–1348 he was enrolled in Florence's Arte dei Medici e Speziali, the guild for painters and apothecaries, indicating his established status. He studied under Bernardo Daddi, the leading Flore...