MiBACT buys at auction eight panels by Taddeo di Bartolo

Important purchase by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, which won at auction from Pandolfini eight small panels by Taddeo di Bartolo (Siena, c. 1362 - 1422), one of the most important painters of the Sienese school of international Gothic, a style to which he combined solidity of form and refinement. MiBACT exercised its right of first refusal and managed to get the works for the sum of 150,000 euros (in 2013, individual panels by the same artist had fetched nearly 600,000 euros).

The eight panels depict as many saints and were formerly part of a polyptych executed toward the end of the artist’s career and once housed in the church of San Domenico in Gubbio: the central compartment, a Madonna and Child from 1418, and four other saints, had already been identified and are all preserved in U.S. public collections. MiBACT decided to allocate the eight panels to the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, a museum that is part of the Polo Museale Regionale dell’Umbria.

MiBACT buys at auction eight panels by Taddeo di Bartolo

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