Grifo di Tancredi

Italian (Florentine)
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Grifo di Tancredi The Death of St Ephraim and Scenes from the Lives of the Hermits (central panel); Scenes from the Passion of Christ (in the wings) About 1280 - 1290 Reproduced courtesy of a private collection on long term loan to the National Galleries of Scotland

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Nationality Italian

The identity of this artist has recently been proposed by linking the fragmentary and much abbreviated inscription on the base-block of the triptych with several documentary references to an artist of this name in Tuscany, the earliest in Volterra in 1271 and all of the others in Florence. A small number of works by this hand had previously been grouped together under the name of the 'Master of San Gaggio'.