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Naddo Ceccarelli (documented 1347, active c. 1330–60) was a 14th-century Italian painter of the Sienese School.
accessed 3 March 2016 Ceccarelli was particularly skilled in suggesting the shine of metalwork through his use of tempera. He carefully layered his paint over the gold ground, which he enriched with a variety of tooled and incised designs. Ceccarelli was apt at capturing the gleam of chain mail and the arabesques of damask. In his work he pays attention to render precious with great care. In ''The Crucifixion'' in the
File:Man of sorrows 1347. Лихтенштейн, музей..jpg, ''Christ as the Man of Sorrows'', ,
Liechtenstein Collection File:Ceccarelli Vierge12.jpg, ''Madonna and Child'', 1347 File:Naddo Ceccarelli. The Virgin Annunciate. Noortman coll. Maastricht, Netherlands.jpg, ''The Virgin Annunciate''
Noortman Collection File:Naddo Ceccarelli. Crucified Christ with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist, Boston MFA.jpg, ''Crucified Christ with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist''
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Naddo Ceccarelli (documented 1347, active c. 1330–60) was a 14th-century Italian painter of the Sienese School.
Work
Naddo Ceccarelli was a gifted pupil of the leading Sienese painterSimone Martini
Simone Martini ( – 1344) was an Italian painter born in Siena.
He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style.
It is thought that Martini was a pupil ...
(ca. 1284–1344). He may have travelled with Martini to Avignon in 1330 and returned to Siena after Martini's death in 1345.Liechtenstein, the Princely Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, p. 189-191 He became one of the better-known artists of the master's workshop after Martini's death.
Two signed paintings by Ceccarelli's hand are known and they form the basis around which his oeuvre has been grouped. They are the ''Madonna and Child'' (formerly in the Cook Collection in Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom) dated to 1347 and a ''Man of Sorrows'' ( Liechtenstein Collection, Vaduz).Martina Bagnoli, ''A Crucifixion By Naddo Ceccare'', in: The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 70-71 (2012-2013), p. 15-24 The majority of the works attributed to Ceccarelli are depictions of the Madonna and Child and are typically small-scale. An exception is the '' Madonna and Child with Saints'' (
Pinacoteca Nazionale (Siena)
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), which is of larger scale and probably painted as an altarpiece. Ceccarelli's work is closer to that of the Master of the Palazzo Venezia Madonna and the Master of the Strauss Madonna (sometimes identified with Frederico Memmi and Donato Martini Donato may refer to:
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, respectively) than with Martini himself.
Ceccarelli was one of a handful of Sienese painters who created reliquaries that emulated the work produced by goldsmiths. Where before reliquaries had been the special domain of the goldsmith, by the fourteenth century, the development of gold-ground painting
Gold ground (both a noun and adjective) or gold-ground (adjective) is a term in art history for a style of images with all or most of the background in a solid gold colour. Historically, real gold leaf has normally been used, giving a luxurious ...
in Italy led to the development of new forms of sacred container. Sacred relics became incorporated into panel paintings, which predominantly featured Marian
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imagery. The producers of these objects combined the display functions of reliquaries with the devotional imagery associated with sculpture and painting.C. Griffith Mann, ''Reliquary Tabernacle with Virgin and Child, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore''accessed 3 March 2016 Ceccarelli was particularly skilled in suggesting the shine of metalwork through his use of tempera. He carefully layered his paint over the gold ground, which he enriched with a variety of tooled and incised designs. Ceccarelli was apt at capturing the gleam of chain mail and the arabesques of damask. In his work he pays attention to render precious with great care. In ''The Crucifixion'' in the
Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum, located in Mount Vernon-Belvedere, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is a public art museum founded and opened in 1934. It holds collections established during the mid-19th century. The museum's collection was amassed ...
, for instance, the shield of the centurion at the right is decorated with a deep blue pattern laid on a tooled gold ground giving it the basse-taille
''Basse-taille'' (bahss-tah-ee) is an enamelling technique in which the artist creates a low-relief pattern in metal, usually silver or gold, by engraving or chasing. The entire pattern is created in such a way that its highest point is lower ...
enamel.
Gallery
Liechtenstein Collection File:Ceccarelli Vierge12.jpg, ''Madonna and Child'', 1347 File:Naddo Ceccarelli. The Virgin Annunciate. Noortman coll. Maastricht, Netherlands.jpg, ''The Virgin Annunciate''
Noortman Collection File:Naddo Ceccarelli. Crucified Christ with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist, Boston MFA.jpg, ''Crucified Christ with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist''
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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