Saint Ursula and Her Maidens, ca. 1410, Tempera and gold on wood, 37 x 31 in. (94 x 78.7 cm), Paintings, Niccolò di Pietro (Italian, Venetian, active 1394–1427/30), Saint Ursula is shown with some of the eleven thousand virgins with whom she is said to have been martyred by the Huns around 383 A.D. A leading late Gothic painter in Venice, Niccolò di Pietro seems to have had contact with northern, perhaps Bohemian, art, and was deeply influenced as well by Michelino da Besozzo and Gentile da Fabriano, both of whom were active in the city
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Saint Ursula, Maidens, ca, 1410, Tempera, gold, wood, 37 x 31, 94 78.7 cm, Paintings, Niccolò di Pietro, Italian, Venetian, active, 1394–1427/30, shown, eleven thousand, virgins, whom, said, martyred, Huns, 383 .D, leading late, Gothic, painter, Venice, di, Pietro, seems, contact, northern, perhaps Bohemian, art, deeply influenced, well, Michelino da, Besozzo, Gentile, Fabriano, city
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