{"id":7829,"date":"2024-12-11T13:09:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T12:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/?post_type=opera&#038;p=7829"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:25:00","slug":"st-benedict-st-galganus","status":"publish","type":"opera","link":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/opera\/st-benedict-st-galganus\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Benedict, St. Galganus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This small panel painting depicts St. Benedict (or possibly St. Bernard of Clairvaux) in a white habit with a crosier and a book, and St. Galganus holding a sword (Tambini, 1982). The two figures stand on either side of a slender tree, while the crown of another tree can just be made out to the right of St. Galganus, proving that the series of saints must once have extended further to the right.<\/p>\n<p>This tells us that what we have here is a fragment of a larger panel sawn off at an unspecified date. The paint drops were probably caused by unduly aggressive cleaning before the panel entered the Pinacoteca. Despite its rather poor condition, however, Carlo Volpe succeeded in attributing the painting to Niccol\u00f2 di Segna (vocal communication in Tambini, 1982). <\/p>\n<p>In these two saints, Niccol\u00f2 continues to echo the styles of Duccio di Buoninsegna and Ugolino di Nerio, while the simplification of the haloes\u2019 punched decoration, typical of Niccol\u00f2\u2019s youthful output, suggests a date of somewhere in the 1330s. <\/p>\n<p>This small panel may have been part of the lower half of a small diptych intended for private devotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5019,"template":"","tag-opera":[],"tecnica":[59],"class_list":["post-7829","opera","type-opera","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tecnica-tempera-on-wood"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/7829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/opera"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/7829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7834,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/7829\/revisions\/7834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag-opera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag-opera?post=7829"},{"taxonomy":"tecnica","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tecnica?post=7829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}