Pinnacle with Angel (pair) (c. 1340): Art, History and Details

Pinnacle with Angel (pair) (c. 1340) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Niccolò di Segna (Italian).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

These pinnacles were originally set on top of a multipanel altarpiece that has now been lost. The angels' gestures and glances suggest that they were placed to the left and right of a central image.

Object facts

• Title: Pinnacle with Angel (pair)
• Date: c. 1340
• Creator attribution: Niccolò di Segna (Italian)
• Culture: Italy, Siena
• Type: Painting
• Technique: tempera and gold on wood panel
• Dimensions: Unframed: 30.5 x 22.7 cm (12 x 8 15/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Medieval Art
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1962.257

Collection credit

Bequest of Jane Taft Ingalls

Further reading listed by the museum

• Van Os, Hendrik W. “Possible Additions to the Work of Niccolò Di Segna.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 3 (March 1972): 78–82.
• Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.