Saint Mary Magdalen and Saint John the Baptist, Two Panels from a Dismembered Altarpiece

Artist: Paolo Veneziano (Italian, Venice, active by 1333–1358/62)

ca. 1325–30

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Tempera and gold on panel

Dimensions

Saint Mary Magdalen: 23 1/8 × 9 3/8 in. (58.7 × 23.8 cm)
Saint John the Baptist: 23 7/16 × 9 3/16 in. (59.5 × 23.3 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Hannah D. and Louis M. Rabinowitz

Accession Number

1959.15.4a-b

Culture

Italian, Venetian

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
Said to have come from the Museo Guidi in Faenza; Rabinowitz Collection, Sands Point, Long Island, before 1945-1959.
Bibliography
  • Mojmír S. Frinta, Punched decoration on late medieval panel and miniature painting, 1 (Prague: Maxdorf Publishing, 1998), 128
  • Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 134
  • Federico Zeri and Elizabeth Gardner, Italian Paintings. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Venetian School (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974), 47
  • Charles Seymour Jr. et al., Italian Primitives: The Case History of a Collection and Its Conservation (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1972), 38
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 601
  • Muraro Michelangelo, Paolo da Venezia (University Park, PA: University Park, PA, 1970), 56, 101, 116
  • Charles Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), 109–11, no. 76a–b
  • Charles Seymour Jr., The Rabinowitz Collection of European Paintings (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1961), 14–15, 55
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places: Venetian School, 2 vols. (London: Phaidon, 1957), 128
  • Louis M. Rabinowitz, Rabinowitz Collection (New York: The Twin Editions, 1945), 11–12
  • Theodore Sizer, "The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection of American Arts and Crafts," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 4 (December 1930), 54
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

Subject

saints

Inscriptions

Inscribed (a) in red to the right of head: MARIA M (Mary M[agdalen]; (b) in red to right of head: [ ] and in black on scroll: ECCE AGNU[S] DEI. ECCE QUI TOL[L]IS PEC[C]ATA (John 2, 29: Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who taketh away the sin of the world)- Carl Strehlke, Draft Checklist of the Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery, 1998-2000.

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