Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 90-91.(Budapest, 1999)
SCHMIDT, VICTOR M.: A Duccesque Fragment of the Coronation of the Virgin
21. Master of Monte Oliveto, detail olTig. 20: Coronation of the Virgin. panel is the right wing of a triptych in New York; the wings are by the so-called Master of Monte Oliveto, the central part is close to Ugolino di Nerio (figs. 20—21). 20 The procedure for the reconstruction of the Budapest panel was as follows. With the help of my colleague Elwin Köster, photographs of the two panels and the fragment were scanned into a computer. The next step was to reduce the fragment to approximately the same scale as the figures in the other panels. 21 Finally, the fragment was pasted into the scanned images of the two other panels. In no way were the images modified. Precisely for that reason it is quite astonishing to see how close the figures match, despite the differences in scale (the overall size of tabernacle no. 35 is 100.7 x 71 cm; the triptych wing measures, without frame, 60 x 19.1 cm). The major discrepancy between the images seems to be the sleeve of Christ's garment. Its position in the Budapest fragment may indicate that the figure of Christ was positioned closer to the Virgin than in the other two panels. 20 Metropolitan Museum of Art, 41.190.31. The central part measures 64.5 x 47.3 cm, frame included; the right wing 64.1 x 23.8 cm (painted surface 60 x 19.1 cm). Stubblcbinc. op. cit. (Note I ) I, 100 101, 178-179; Zeri, F. Gardner, F. F., Italian paintings. A catalogue of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sienese and Central Italian schools. New York 1980, 46^)7. A third repetition of the same composition is found in a later Sienese panel in a Dutch private collection, but it is so clumsy that I have not taken it into consideration. Van Os, H. W. et al., eds.. The early Sienese paintings in Holland, Florence - The Hague 1989, 54-55, no. 10. 21 The photographs were digitali/.cd with a Hewlett Packard ScanJet 4C scanner at 600 dpi. The images were manipulated using the PaintShop Pro program, version 5.
