Holy Trinity with the Virgin and Saints Mary Magdalen, John the Baptist, and John the Evangelist

ca. 1370–75

Medium: Tempera and gold on panel
Dimensions: overall: 41 1/4 × 19 7/8 in. (104.7 × 50.5 cm)
picture surface: 31 5/16 × 18 1/8 in. (79.5 × 46 cm)
Credit Line: University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves
Accession Number: 1871.18
Geography: Made in Florence, Italy
Culture: Italian, Florence
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 (1818–1888), Florence, by 1859; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Erling Skaug, Punch Marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico: Attribution, Chronology and Workshop Relationships in Tuscan Panel Painting, 2 vols. (Oslo: Nordic Group, 1994), 1:195, 2: no. 6.14

Richard Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting: The Fourteenth Century. Supplement: A Legacy of Attributions, ed. Hayden B. J. Maginnis (New York: Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1981), 29

Miklos Boskovits, Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370–1400 (Florence, Italy: Edam, 1975), 327

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 101, 599

Charles Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), 48, 308, no. 30, ill.

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places: The Florentine School, 2 vols. (London: Phaidon, 1963), 1:105

Francis Steegmuller, The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1951), 294

Millard Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death: The Arts, Religion and Society in the Mid-Fourteenth Century (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1951), 34n.83

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), 274

Richard Offner, Italian Primitives at Yale University: Comments and Revisions (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1927), 17–18

Osvald Sirén, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Jarves Collection Belonging to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916), 43, 45–46, no. 18, ill.

Osvald Sirén, "Pictures in America by Bernardo Daddi, Taddeo Gaddi, Andrea Orcagna, and His Brothers—I," Art in America 2, no. 4 (June 1914), 336

William Rankin, Notes on the Collections of Old Masters at Yale University, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Museum of Harvard University (Wellesley, Mass.: Department of Art, Wellesley College, 1905), 8, no. 27

William Rankin, "Some Early Italian Pictures in the Jarves Collection of the Yale School of Fine Arts at New Haven," American Journal of Archaeology 10, no. 2 (April-June 1895), 141

Russell Sturgis, Jr., Manual of the Jarves Collection of Early Italian Pictures (New Haven, Conn.: Yale College, 1868), 37, no. 27

James Jackson Jarves, Descriptive Catalogue of "Old Masters," Collected by James J. Jarves to Illustrate the History of Painting from A.D. 1200 to the Best Periods of Italian Art (Cambridge, Mass.: H. O. Houghton, 1860), 44, no. 20

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