Virgin and Child by Ugolino di Nerio in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Virgin and Child
about 1325–30
Ugolino di Nerio, Italian (Sienese), active in 1317–1339

Dimensions: 81.4 x 52.1 cm (32 1/16 x 20 1/2 in.)

Material: Tempera on panel

Classification: Paintings
Type: Religious - Saints; Arched

Accession Number: 16.65

On view in the Catalonian Chapel Gallery, in honor of I. W. Colburn - 254A

Now framed as a single panel, this painting was probably originally the central section of a polyptych (a multi-panel altarpiece), with paintings of individual saints displayed in flanking compartments. The present shape and frame may date from the seventeenth century; an inscription on the back of the panel states that "this painting of the Madonna of Mercy was restored by the priest Angelo Sirigatti in the year 1630." Much of the gilding is modern

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/virgin-and-child-31548