Common object categories in Italian gold-ground art

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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 categories (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 object categories of a total of 10,176 objects:

  1. Painting‍ ‍(dipinto - 3,660)

  2. Wall painting (dipinto murale - 3,161)

  3. Polyptych panel‍ ‍(scomparto di polittico - 788)

  4. Predella panel‍ ‍(scomparto di predella - 415)

  5. Polyptych (polittico - 277)

  6. Painted crucifix (croce dipinta - 248)

  7. Triptych‍ ‍(trittico - 246)

  8. Portable altarpiece‍ ‍(altarolo portatile - 144)

  9. Small altarpiece (altarolo - 125)

  10. Dossal (dossale - 118)

  11. Triptych panel‍ ‍(scomparto di trittico - 100)

  12. Pinnacle of a polyptych‍ ‍(cuspide di polittico - 93)

Number of known objects by the 35 Masters in our database (total known objects by these Masters = 2,814):

  1. 239 known objects (see list 🔗) by Fra Angelico.

  2. 225 known objects (see list 🔗) by Giotto di Bondone.

  3. 182 known objects (see list 🔗) by Giovanni di Paolo.

  4. 163 known objects (see list 🔗) by Lorenzo Monaco.

  5. 155 known objects (see list 🔗) by Daddi Bernardo.

  6. 148 known objects (see list 🔗) by Niccolò di Pietro Gerini.

  7. 137 known objects (see list 🔗) by Andrea di Bartolo.

  8. 136 known objects (see list 🔗) by Taddeo di Bartolo.

  9. 135 known objects (see list 🔗) by Agnolo Gaddi.

  10. 104 known objects (see list 🔗) by Pietro Lorenzetti.

  11. 94 known objects (see list 🔗) by Simone Martini.

  12. 93 known objects (see list 🔗) by Taddeo Gaddi.

  13. 89 known objects (see list 🔗) by Gentile da Fabriano.

  14. 89 known objects (see list 🔗) by Luca di Tommè.

  15. 85 known objects (see list 🔗) by Bartolo di Fredi.

  16. 81 known objects (see list 🔗) by Allegretto Nuzi.

  17. 75 known objects (see list 🔗) by Paolo Veneziano.

  18. 66 known objects (see list 🔗) by Duccio di Buoninsegna.

  19. 62 known objects (see list 🔗) by Lorenzo di Bicci.

  20. 58 known objects (see list 🔗) by Jacopo di Cione.

  21. 52 known objects (see list 🔗) by Ambrogio Lorenzetti.

  22. 50 known objects (see list 🔗) by Jacobello del Fiore.

  23. 49 known objects (see list 🔗) by Bulgarini Bartolomeo.

  24. 46 known objects (see list 🔗) by Ugolino di Nerio.

  25. 46 known objects (see list 🔗) by Vitale da Bologna.

  26. 40 known objects (see list 🔗) by Lippo Memmi.

  27. 32 known objects (see list 🔗) by Andrea di Cione.

  28. 31 known objects (see list 🔗) by Maso di Banco.

  29. 29 known objects (see list 🔗) by Nardo di Cione.

  30. 29 known objects (see list 🔗) by Giovanni da Milano.

  31. 26 known objects (see list 🔗) by Guido of Siena.

  32. 26 known objects (see list 🔗) by Cimabue (Cenni di Pepo).

  33. 22 known objects (see list 🔗) by Lippo Vanni.

  34. 5 known objects (see list 🔗) by Master of the St Cecilia.

  35. 4 known objects (see list 🔗) by Giunta di Capitino.