Virgin and Child Enthroned with Six Angels and The Crucifixion Artist: Master of Monte Oliveto (Italian, Siena, active ca. 1315–ca. 1335)

ca. 1315

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Tempera, gold, and silver on panel

Dimensions

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Six Angels: 13 1/8 × 8 3/4 in. (33.4 × 22.2 cm)
The Crucifixion: 13 × 8 5/8 in. (33 × 21.9 cm)

Credit Line

University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves

Accession Number

1871.10a-b

Geography

Made in Siena, Italy

Culture

Italian, Siena

Period

14th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
James Jackson Jarves Collection, Florence, to 1871; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Martina Bagnoli, "A Crucifixion by Naddo Ceccarelli," The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 70–71 (2012–13), 16–7, fig. 3
  • Laurence Kanter, "Some Early Sienese Paintings: Cleaned, Uncleaned, Restored, Unrestored. What Have We Learned?," in "Time Will Tell: Ethics and Choices in Conservation," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2010), 46–65, fig. 12–16
  • Anne Derbes and Amy Neff, Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557), ed. Helen C. Evans (New York; New Haven, Conn.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004), 460, 605, 460, 605, notes 90, 93
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  • Luisa Vertova, "The New Yale Catalogue," The Burlington Magazine 115 (March 1973), 159–160
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  • Daniel L. Arnheim, Charles Seymour Jr., and Gloria Kury Keach, Italian Primitives: The Case History of a Collection and Its Conservation (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1972), 43, no. 34, (Sienese school)
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 599
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  • Gertrude Coor, A New Attribution to the Monte Oliveto Master and some Observations concerning the Chronology of his Works, 97 (London, England: The Burlington Magazine, July 1955), 203, 204, 207, 203, 204, 207, figs. 28 and 29 (Monte Oliveto Master, dated after 1315), fig. 28, 29
  • Mrs. Francis Steegmuller, The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1951), 294
  • Cesare Brandi, Duccio (Florence, Itlay: Vellecchi, 1951), 141
  • Harry B. Wehle, A Catalogue of Italian, Spanish, and Byzantine Paintings (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1940), 74, 74 (cites Offner's verbal opinion that triptych in Metropolitan Museum of Art is by same painter as Yale diptych)
  • Cesare Brandi, La Regia Pinacoteca di Siena (Rome, Italy: La Libreria dello stato, 1933), 176
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932), 524, (as Segna di Bonaventura)
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Object copyright
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Object/Work type

religious art

Subject

crucifixions

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