Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus with Saints and Angels Artist: Lorenzo d' Alessandro da Sanseverino (Italian, 1440/50–1503)

ca. 1480

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Egg tempera and gold on wood panel

Dimensions

14 3/4 × 12 1/8 in. (37.5 × 30.8 cm)

Credit Line

Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection

Accession Number

1937.341

Culture

Italian, Marche

Period

15th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Edwin A. Abbey; presumably acquired in Europe, but at an unknown date.
Bibliography
  • Costanza Constanzi, Le Marche disperse: repertorio di opere d'arte dalle Marche al mondo (Milan: Silvana, 2005), 192, fig. 255
  • Creighton Gilbert, "An Addition to Lorenzo d'Alessandro de San Severino," in "Essays in honor of Alan Shestack, Director of the Yale University Art Gallery 1971–1985," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 40, no. 1 (Spring 1987), 20–25
  • Giampiero Donnini, "Su Alcuni aspetti dell'ultimo Lorenzo d'Alessandro," Notizie da Palazzo Albani No. 10 (1981), 17–22
  • Raoul Paciaroni, "Lorenzo d'Alessandro da Sanseverino," Notizie da Palazzo Albani (1977), 22–25
  • Luisa Vertova, Book review. Early Italian paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery, 115 (New Haven, Conn.: The Burlington Magazine, March 1973), 159–63, fig. 16
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 599–601
  • Charles Seymour Jr. and Everett Fahy, Annotated Copy of Charles Seymour, Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), (Lorenzo d'Alessandro)
  • Charles Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery: A Catalogue by Charles Seymour, Jr. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 138–39, no. 97
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

Inscriptions

Inscribed on Virgin's halo: AVE MARISTELLA (Behold the star of the sea); on the saint's book: TIMETE DEUM ET DATE ILLI HONOREM QUIA VENIT (Apocalypse 14:7: "Fear God, and give him honor, for [the hour of judgement] has come.")

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