\paperw3690 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \b UGOLINO DI NERIO\par
\b0 Italian painter\par
(Siena, documented from 1317 to 1327)\par
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A faithful follower of Duccio, Ugol
ino is the most sensitive and brilliant interpreter of his masterÆs stylistic innovations. Praised by Vasari ôfor his fine work without straying at all from the manner of his teacher,ö he painted numerous altarpieces for churches in Siena and the surroun
ding region, as well as a magnificent polyptych commissioned from him by the Franciscan friars around 1325 for the high altar of the church of Santa Croce in Florence.\par
Separated at the beginning of the nineteenth century and currently dispersed amon
g various museums in Europe and America, UgolinoÆs polyptych, along with DuccioÆs \i Rucellai Madonna\i0 , is an important testimony to the prestige enjoyed by Sienese painting in Florence and a significant example of a meeting between the two artistic c