The Annunciation Artist: Fra Angelico (Italian, ca. 1395–1455)

ca. 1423–25

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

unframed: 7 1/8 × 5 5/16 × 5/8 in. (18.1 × 13.49 × 1.59 cm)
unframed: 3 15/16 × 2 7/8 × 5/8 in. (10 × 7.3 × 1.59 cm)
unframed: 7 1/4 × 7 × 5/8 in. (18.42 × 17.78 × 1.59 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Hannah D. and Louis M. Rabinowitz

Accession Number

1959.15.6

Geography

Made in Florence, Italy

Culture

Italian, Florence

Period

15th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Albertini Collection, Pistoia (according to dealer's record); Sir Charles Townley Collection, England (1877); Lady Crossley Collection, "Burton-Pynsent," Yeovil, Somerset, England; Koetser Gallery, New York, (May 1939) (according to a photograph in the Richard Offner photoarchives); E. and A. Silberman Galleries*, New York (1940); the Rabinowitz Collection, Sands Point, Long Island (ca. 1944–1959); Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

*According to the Richard Offner photoarchives, as well as 1955 Silberman exhibition publication
Bibliography
  • Laurence Kanter and Pia Palladino, Fra Angelico (New York and New Haven, Conn.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005),
  • Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 134, 137, fig. 134
  • Giorgio Bonsanti and Beato Angelico, Beato Angelico: catalogo completo (Florence: Octavo Franco Cantini, 1998), 115
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 134
  • Miklos Boskovits, "La fase tarda del Beato Angelico: una proposta di interpretazione," Arte Cristiana 71 (1983), 11–24, no. 694
  • Miklos Boskovits, Un'Adorazione dei Magi e gli inizi dell'Angelico (Bern, Switzerland: Abegg-Stiftung, 1976), 38,41, p. 50 (note 27), 52 (note 41) (early Angelico)
  • F. Clancy, Primitives: The Case History of A Collection and Its Conservation (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972), 54
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 221; 601
  • 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), 132–34
  • Charles Seymour Jr., The Rabinowitz Collection of European Paintings (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1961), 18–19, 54
  • Edna Perkel, An Exhibition of Paintings: for the Benefit of the Research Fund of Art and Archaeology, The Spanish Institute, Inc., exh. cat. (New York: E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Inc., 1955), 15, no. 3, as Fra Filippo Lippi, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

religious art

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