Christ and the Virgin Enthroned, with Allegories of the Old and New Testament Artist: Giovanni del Biondo (Florence, documented 1356–99)

ca. 1365

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

72 × 31 3/16 in. (182.9 × 79.2 cm)

Credit Line

University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves

Accession Number

1871.19

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 Collection, Florence, to 1871; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker, and Wilhelm Suida, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler (Leipzig, Germany: E. A. Seemann, 1999), 111
  • Eling Skaug, Punch Marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico: Attribution, Chronology and Workshop Relationships in Tuscan Panel Painting, 1, 2 (Oslo: Nordic Group, 1994), 201
  • W. F. Volbach and F. Pomarici, Catalogo della Pinacoteca Vaticana: Il trecento Firenze e Siena (Vatican City, Italy: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1987), 16, (Giovanni del Biondo)
  • F. Mancinelli, "Italian Paintings in the Vatican Pinacoteca," Apollo (May 1983), 357
  • Miklos Boskovits, Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370-1400 (Florence, Italy: Edam, 1975), 312, Giovanni Del Biondo
  • 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
  • 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), 43–45, no. 26
  • Brigitte Klesse, Seidenstoff in der italienischen Malerei des vierzehnten Jahrhunderts (Bern, Switzerland: Stampfli, 1967), 365, 365, no. 318c (Giovanni del Biondo)
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places, 1 (New York; Greenwich, Conn.: Phaidon, 1963), 332, Giovanni del Biondo
  • Richard Offner, "A Ray of Light on Giovanni del Biondo and Niccolo di Tommaso," Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz 7 (1956), 183, Giovanni del Biondo
  • Mrs. Francis Steegmuller, The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1951), 293, fig. 7
  • "Picture Book Number One," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 15, nos.1–3 (October 1946), fig. 3
  • Richard Offner, Italian Primitives at Yale University: Comments and Revisions (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1927), 18–19, (Giovanni del Biondo)
  • Raimond van Marle, Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, 1, 3, 9, 17 (The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1923), 520–21, Vol. 3, Giovanni del Biondo
  • 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 of Wellesley College, 1905), 7, no. 5
  • 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 (April-June 1895), 138, probably school of Orcagna
  • W. F. Brown, Boston, Catalogue of the Jarves Collection of Early Italian Pictures, sale cat. (1871), 11–12, lot 5
  • Russell Sturgis, Jr., Manual of the Jarves Collection of Early Italian Pictures (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1868), 20–21, no. 5
  • 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 and Co., 1860), 42, no. 8
  • Étienne Achille Re´veil, Museo di Pittura e Scultura delle Gallerie d'Europa, 13 (Florence, Italy: Paolo Fumagelli, 1845), 156
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

Inscriptions

Inscribed on Christ's book: A W(Alpha and Omega in Greek); on scroll above Ecclesia, ECCE NOVA FACIO (Apocalypse 21:5: "Behold I make all things new"); on scroll held by angel over Synagoga (H [?] ABEBIS DEO[S]; Exodus 20:3 [?]: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

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