AGOSTINO DI GIOVANNI
(active 1310-1347 in Siena)

Virgin Annunciate (detail)

c. 1321
Polychrome wood
Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa

The wooden Annunciata, formerly in San Domenico and now in the National Museum of San Matteo, carries in the octagonal plinth the names of Stefano Accolti and Agostino di Giovanni (perhaps the patrons of the work) and the date 132? (the last digit is uncertain and it is not at all sure whether it is a 1 as it has often been read). The attribution of the work to Agostino is not unanimously accepted.