Virgin and Child Enthroned

Artist: Antonio Vivarini (Italian, ca. 1415–1476/84)

ca. 1462–64

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

45 3/4 × 25 9/16 in. (116.2 × 65 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Hannah D. and Louis M. Rabinowitz

Accession Number

1959.15.12

Culture

Italian, Venetian

Period

15th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Possibly Aloisi-Vicoli-Caccialupi family, San Severino Marche; possibly by descent to Count Augusto Caccialupi Olivieri Collection, Macerata (by 1870); Robert I. Nevin Collection, Rome (sale, Rome, Apr. 22–27, 1907); Ellis Collection, Chicago; Dan Fellows Platt (1873–1938) Collection, Englewood, New Jersey; Rabinowitz Collection, Sands Point, Long Island, (before 1945–59); Yale University Art Gallery (1959–)
Bibliography
  • Mauro Minardi, "Studi sulla collezione Nevin: i dipinti veneti del XIV e XV secolo," Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte 36 (2012), 326–32, fig. 23
  • Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 138, as Bartolommeo Vivarini, ill
  • Andrew Carnduff Ritchie and Katherine Neilson, Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972), no. 12, as Bartolommeo Vivarini, fig. 3
  • 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
  • Charles Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), 247–48, no. 186
  • Rodolfo Pallucchini, I Vivarini (Antonio, Bartolomeo, Alvise) (Venice: Neri Pozza Editore, 1961), 42, 117, no. 139, fig. 139
  • Charles Seymour Jr., The Rabinowitz Collection of European Paintings (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1961), 24–25, ill
  • "Recent Gifts and Purchases, February 22–December 31, 1959," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 26, no. 1 (December 1960), 54, as Bartolomeo Vivarini
  • Charles Seymour, "Louis Mayer Rabinowitz," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 23 (September 1957), 12–13, fig. 5
  • 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), 202
  • 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), 17, no. 5, as Bartolomeo Vivarini, ill
  • Albert G. Hess, Italian Renaissance Paintings with Musical Subjects: A Corpus of such Works in American Collections, with Detailed Descriptions of the Musical Features (New York: Libra Press, 1955), no. LXXXIX
  • Ulrich Thieme et al., Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, 34 (Leipzig, Germany: W. Engelmann, 1940), 451
  • Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del rinascimento: catalogo dei principali artisti e delle loro opere (Milan, Italy: Ulrico Hoepli, 1936), 517
  • Lionello Venturi, Italian Paintings in America, 3 vols. (New York: E. Weyhe, Inc., 1933), fig. pl.357
  • 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), 601
  • Lionello Venturi, Pitture italiane in America (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1931), fig. pl. CCLXVII
  • Bernard Berenson, Venetian Painting in America, the Fifteenth Century (New York: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1916), 13–15, fig. 7
  • F. Mason Perkins, "Una Tavola di Bartolomeo Vivarini," Rassegna d'Arte (1908), 145, ill
  • Adolfo Venturi, Storia dell'arte Italiana, 11 vols. (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1901–40), 7: 323, fig. 247
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

Subject

Mary

Signed

Vivarini, Bartolomeo, 1450-1491

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