Segna di Bonaventura

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Crocifisso , Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena
New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art: San Giovanni Evangelista
Honolulu Academy of Arts: Madonna col Bambino

Segna di Bonaventura was an Italian painter belonging to the style of the Siena School .

Life

He worked in Siena and the surrounding area at the end of the 13th and during the first half of the 14th century . The period of his artistic creation falls in the years between 1298 and 1331. In a document November 4th 1331 is mentioned as the date of his death. He was probably a cousin of Duccio di Buoninsegna and painted in his style and that of Simone Martini . In addition, worked several times with Ugolino di Nerio . He signed only four of his works with his “Segna mi fecit”, including an expressive table cross that is on display in the Diocesan Museum in Pienza . His sons Niccolò di Segna and Francesco di Segna di Bonaventura were also painters in Siena.

Works (selection)

  • Angers , Musée des Beaux-arts: Giudizio Universale (wood painting, 124 × 60 cm, made around 1300/05)
  • Arezzo , Chiesa di Badia : Crocifisso (wood painting, made in 1319)
  • Asciano , Museo Civico Archeologico e d'Arte Sacra in the Palazzo Corboli: Madonna col Bambino (wood painting, 65 × 48 cm, c. 1305/10, from the Collegiata di Sant'Agata)
  • Castiglion Fiorentino , Collegiata di San Giuliano: Madonna in trono , also known as Maestà (comes from Pieve Vecchia (also Pieve di San Giuliano ))
  • Honolulu , Honolulu Academy of Arts : Madonna col Bambino (wood painting, approx. 1325/30)
  • Massa Marittima , Cattedrale di San Cerbone (cathedral): Crocifisso (painted wooden cross)
  • Minneapolis , Minneapolis Institute of Arts : Madonna col Bambino (wood painting, created around 1310)
  • Moscow , Pushkin Museum :
    • Crocifisso
    • Madonna col Bambino
  • Munich , Alte Pinakothek : Santa Maddalena (wood painting, 44.2 × 29.1 cm, created around 1320)
  • New York City , Metropolitan Museum of Art :
    • San Giovanni Evangelista (wood painting, created around 1320)
    • Diptych with Crucifixion and Madonna and Child Enthroned (Robert Lehman Collection, wood painting, 38.1 × 27 cm, c. 1315)
  • Raleigh , North Carolina Museum of Art : Madonna col Bambino (wood painting, 89.9 × 56.5 cm, approx. 1320/30)
  • Siena, Basilica di San Clemente in Santa Maria dei Servi : Madonna col Bambino (wood painting, 85 × 52 cm, made in 1319)
  • Siena, Museo Diocesano di Arte Sacra (Oratorio di San Bernardino), room 6: Madonna col Bambino (wood painting, created around 1310/17)
  • Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale :
    • San Paolo, Madonna, San Giovanni Evangelista e San Romualdo (room 4, winged altar painted on wood, 69 × 154 cm, c. 1310/20)
    • Crocifisso (room 3, built around 1310/15)

Individual evidence

  1. cf. Thieme-Becker
  2. cf. Treccani
  3. Official website of the Musée des Beaux-arts, accessed on August 19, 2011 ( Memento of the original of August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / musees.angers.fr
  4. Official website of the city of Arezzo, accessed on August 19, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / aida.comune.arezzo.it  
  5. ^ Website of the Crete Senesi, with illus., Accessed on August 19, 2011
  6. ^ Official website of the Museo Pieve San Giuliano, accessed on August 19, 2011
  7. Official website of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, with illus., Accessed on August 19, 2011 ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artsmia.org
  8. ^ Website of the Web Gallery of Art, with illus., Accessed on August 19, 2011
  9. ^ Official website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the picture San Giovanni Evangelista , with illus., Accessed on August 19, 2011
  10. Official website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Crucifixion , with illus., Accessed on August 19, 2011
  11. Official website of the North Carolina Museum of Art, with illus., Accessed on August 19, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / collection.ncartmuseum.org  
  12. Fig. Of the work in Web Gallery of Art, accessed on August 19, 2011

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Web links

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