Description

History: The fourteenth century table is kept inside the Diocesan Museum of Cortona (Ar). Niccolò di Segna, son of Segna di Buonaventura, one of the prosecutors of the style of Duccio by Buoninsegna until more than half of the 14th century.  This Virgin Mary can also be considered an elegant 'variation on the theme' of the Virgin with the Son for how he had treated Duccio di Buoninsegna in some of his masterpieces, revisited in the light of a personal taste, perhaps a bit algid, for some warmth of the expressions, for a tonal color scheme and for the richness of the decorative elements. The almost absent look of Mary and the Child "passes above us", and is one of the characteristics that approach the style of Niccolò to that of Father. In this icon of the Virgin Mary and Child we notice the refined weives of veil deliberately exalted by Silvia Salvadori. The halo looks very elegant, thanks above all to the clever play between smooth surface and "granulate" obtained with the use of a tiny punch. The letters circled in the halo of Mary that make up the words AVE GRATIA is a clear reference to the greeting of the angel Gabriel, while the fine motif designed with a thin tip of agate stone in the halo of Jesus recalls the wine symbol of the Passion. In this work, Silvia used the same colors as Duccio Buoninsegna's palette, a purple red for the dress and delicate faces of the chromatic passages of martinian memory.