Common objects in Italian gold-ground art
The University of Bologna’s Fondazione Federico Zeri provides the most comprehensive database available for Italian art of this era. This list ranks the most common object types (formats or supports) based on how often they appear in the Zeri Catalogue. Between 1250 and 1430, these object types (here the top 12) were the most frequently recorded in Italian art. They account for the great majority of the 10,176 artworks documented in the Pittura italiana dataset of the Fondazione Federico Zeri Photo Catalogue for this period.
The 12 most common objects of a total of 10,176 artworks:
Painting (dipinto - 3,660)
Wall painting (dipinto murale - 3,161)
Polyptych panel (scomparto di polittico - 788)
Predella panel (scomparto di predella - 415)
Polyptych (polittico - 277)
Painted crucifix (croce dipinta - 248)
Triptych (trittico - 246)
Portable altarpiece (altarolo portatile - 144)
Small altarpiece (altarolo - 125)
Dossal (dossale - 118)
Triptych panel (scomparto di trittico - 100)
Pinnacle of a polyptych (cuspide di polittico - 93)