St. Lucy

Jacopo del Casentino, a Florentine painter and miniaturist active in the first half of the fourteenth century, depicted Saint Lucy around 1330 in the devotional panel format typical of Trecento Florence. Lucy, the patron saint of sight and light, was widely venerated throughout Gothic Italy. Jacopo was a follower of Giotto who specialized in smaller-scale devotional works and manuscript illuminations for Florentine churches and confraternities.

Egg tempera on gold-ground panel with refined miniaturist technique. Jacopo's small-scale figural style shows the influence of both Giotto's volumetric modeling and the decorative precision of his parallel career as a manuscript illuminator.