Naddo Ceccarelli

Naddo Ceccarelli was a gifted pupil of the leading Sienese painter Simone Martini (ca.

An exception is the Madonna and Child with Saints (Pinacoteca Nazionale (Siena)), which is of larger scale and probably painted as an altarpiece.

[1] Ceccarelli was one of a handful of Sienese painters who created reliquaries that emulated the work produced by goldsmiths.

The producers of these objects combined the display functions of reliquaries with the devotional imagery associated with sculpture and painting.

In The Crucifixion in the Walters Art Museum, for instance, the shield of the centurion at the right is decorated with a deep blue pattern laid on a tooled gold ground giving it the basse-taille enamel.