The Virgin Swooning and the Three Maries at the Tomb of Christ

Puccio di Simone, a Florentine painter active in the mid-fourteenth century and a follower of Bernardo Daddi, created this panel depicting the Virgin swooning and the three Marys at the tomb of Christ. The pairing of these two episodes links the Passion narrative with the Resurrection, creating a condensed visual theology of death and redemption. Puccio's style, characterized by its gentle, somewhat provincial reworking of Daddi's courtly elegance, represents the broad middle range of Florentine Gothic production.

Executed in egg tempera on gold-ground panel, the dual-scene composition juxtaposes the emotional intensity of the swooning Virgin with the mysterious encounter at the empty tomb. Puccio di Simone's gentle figural modeling and measured compositional rhythm reveal his training in the Daddi workshop tradition.