Virgin and Child Enthroned with Two Angels Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1285–90

Medium: Tempera and gold on panel
Dimensions: overall, including modern engaged frame: 31 7/8 × 17 1/16 in. (81 × 43.3 cm)
original panel: 30 3/16 × 15 15/16 in. (76.7 × 40.5 cm)
picture surface: 29 × 14 5/16 in. (73.6 × 36.3 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896
Accession Number: 1943.202
Geography: Made in Florence
Culture: Italian, Florence
Period: 13th 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

Art market, Florence; Maitland Fuller Griggs (1872–1943), New York, by 1927; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Daniela Parenti, L’arte a Firenze nell’età di Dante (1250–1300), eds. Mario Scalini and Angelo Tartuferi, exh. cat. (Florence: Giunti, 2004), 118

Giovanni Previtali, Giotto e la sua bottega, 3rd ed. (Milan: Fabbri, 1993), 36, 38, 40, 138n47, fig. 29

Angelo Tartuferi, La pittura a Firenze nel Duecento (Florence: A. Bruschi, 1990), 64, 111, no. 229, fig. 229

Angelo Tartuferi, "Dipinti del due e trecento alla mostra "Capolavori e Restauri"," Paragone 38, no. 445 (March 1987), 51–52, 58–59n23

Luiz C. Marques, La peinture du duecento en Italie centrale (Paris: Picard, 1987), 214, 287, fig. 273

Ferdinando Bologna, La pittura italiana delle origini, 2nd ed. (Rome: Riuniti, 1978), 130

Lionello G. Boccia et al., ed., Arte nell’Aretino: Recuperi e restauri dal 1968 al 1974, exh. cat. (Florence: Edam, 1974), 36

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 600

Charles Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), 15–17, no. 4, ill.

Giovanni Previtali, Giotto e la sua bottega (Milan: Fabbri, 1967), 28, 30, fig. 28

Edward B. Garrison, Italian Romanesque Panel Painting: An Illustrated Index (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1949), 82, no. 192

Helen Comstock, "The Yale Collection of Italian Paintings," The Connoisseur 118 (September 1946), 45, 47, no. 1

Alfred M. Frankfurter, "The Maitland F. Griggs Collection," Art News 35, no. 31 (May 1, 1937), 29

Lionello Venturi, Italian Paintings in America, 3 vols. (New York: E. Weyhe, Inc., 1933), pl. 12

Lionello Venturi, Pitture italiane in America (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1931), pl. 11

Object copyright

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Object/Work type

religious art

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