Giovanni di Paolo_ The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 46 ..

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20. Giovanni di Paolo. Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints. Bequest of Michael Friedsam, I93I. The Friedsam Collection (32. I00.76)
2 . Giovanni di Paolo. The Baptist Entering the Wilderness. National Gallery, London22. Giovanni di Paolo. The Baptism of Christ. National Gallery, LondonBaptist, The Baptist Entering the Wilderness, The Baptism ofChrist, and The Head of the Baptist Broughto Herod (see figs.2 , 22). The Baptism of Christ is wider than the other panelsand would have stood in the center, so the missing scenecame from the right-hand side and must have shown theBaptist Preaching Before Herod or the Execution of theBaptist. The widths of the panels do not correspond exactlywith the widths of the panels in the Metropolitan polyptych(there is a discrepancy of about five centimeters in the widthof the panels at the sides and of twenty centimeters in thatof the central panel, which has been cut down), but in Sienamathematical computation in such cases was an exceptionrather than the rule, and very likely the London panelsformed the predella of the New York altarpiece.Fine as it is, this austere polyptych is not one of Giovannidi Paolo's most appealing works. Though boldly drawn, itsfigures are uncommunicative and impersonal. Combinedwith its predella, however, it would have made a very differenteffect, for the four panels in London are some ofGiovanni di Paolo's most richly imaginative works. Thecompositions of two of them, the radiant Baptism and thedramatic Head of the Baptist Broughto Herod, derive frombronze reliefs made in the I420s by Ghiberti and Donatellofor the font in the Baptistery under Siena Cathedral, andboth scenes are infused with peculiar intensity and vividness.Still more remarkable is The Baptist Entering the Wilderness.The foreground is filled with a panoramic landscapeintersected by three roads running parallel to the base ofI9
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