Triptych: Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Francis; Crucifixion with Penitent Magadalen; Saints Michael the Archangel, Peter Martyr and Catherine of Alexandria

ca. 1270

Not on view

Medium: Tempera and gold on panel
Dimensions: center panel: 8 15/16 × 7 1/16 in. (22.7 × 18 cm)
left panel: 8 1/4 × 3 9/16 in. (21 × 9 cm)
right panel: 8 1/4 × 3 7/16 in. (21 × 8.8 cm)
Credit Line: University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves
Accession Number: 1871.4
Geography: Made in Florence, Italy
Culture: Italian, Florence
Period: 13th century
Classification: Paintings
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Provenance

James Jackson Jarves (1818–1888), Florence, by 1859; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Joanna Cannon, Religous Poverty, Visual Riches: Art in the Dominican Churches of Central Italy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), 208–12, 383n36, fig. 188

William R. Cook, Images of Saint Francis of Assisi in Painting, Stone and Glass from the Earliest Images to ca. 1320 in Italy (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1999), 135–36, fig. 108

Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 131

Angelo Tartuferi, La pittura a Firenze nel Duecento (Florence: A. Bruschi, 1990), 38, 52n4, fig. 107

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie and Katherine Neilson, Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972), no. 1

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 217, 599

Charles Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), 11–13, no. 2

James H. Stubblebine, Guido da Siena (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1964), 85

George Kaftal, Iconography of the Saints in Tuscan Painting (Florence: Sansoni, 1952), col. 323, fig. b

Francis Steegmuller, The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1951), 293

Edward B. Garrison, Italian Romanesque Panel Painting: An Illustrated Index (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1949), 125, no. 330

Arts of the Middle Ages: A Loan Exhibition, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1940), 17, no. 48

Evelyn Sandberg-Vavalà, L’iconografia della Madonna col Bambino nella pittura italiana del dugento (Siena: San Bernardino, 1934), 37, no. 83

George Martin Richter, "Megliore di Jacopo and the Magdalen Master," Burlington Magazine 57, no. 332 (1930), 230, note 13

Richard Offner, Italian Primitives at Yale University: Comments and Revisions (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1927), 2, 13–14, fig. 5

Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, 19 vols. (The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1923–38), 1:336n1, 355–58, fig. 192

Osvald Sirén, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Jarves Collection Belonging to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916), 15, no. 4

Russell Sturgis, Jr., Manual of the Jarves Collection of Early Italian Pictures (New Haven, Conn.: Yale College, 1868), 19, no. 3

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), 42, no. 11

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

crucifixions

[central panel] "MR OV"; [left wing, on the cross]: "IC XC"

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