Saint John the Evangelist  1320

This is the best-preserved panel of a signed altarpiece by Segna of which three other panels are also in the Metropolitan Museum. Although Segna’s art is dependent on the work of Duccio, his figures have a regal, hieratic formality. His ascetic, harshly featured saints consciously evoke a more archaic art, and he notably retained the Byzantine use of gold striations on dra...