Predella: Saint Francis, the Mourning Virgin Mary, Christ on the Cross, the Mourning Saint John the Evangelist, and Saint Dominic

Artist: Luca di Tommè (Siena, documented 1356–89)

ca. 1350–55

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Tempera, gold, and silver on panel

Dimensions

overall: 9 1/4 × 77 11/16 in. (23.5 × 197.3 cm)
picture surface: 7 7/8 × 76 in. (20 × 193.1 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896

Accession Number

1943.246

Geography

Made in Siena, Italy

Culture

Italian, Siena

Period

14th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Ercole Canessa (1868–1929), Paris; sale, American Art Galleries, New York, January 25–26, 1924, lot 152 (as school of Simone Martini); Maitland F. Griggs (1872–1943), New York, 1924; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Sherwood A. Fehm, Jr., Luca di Tommè: A Sienese Fourteenth-Century Painter (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986), 95
  • Cristina de Benedictis, La pittura senese 1330-1370 (Florence: Salimbeni, 1979), 95
  • Luisa Vertova, "The New Yale Catalogue," Burlington Magazine 115 (March 1973), 160
  • Sherwood A. Fehm, Jr., The collaboration of Niccolò Tegliacci and Luca di Tommè (Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1973), 15, 31
  • 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), 81, no. 54
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, 3 vols. (London: Phaidon, 1968), 235
  • Alfred M. Frankfurter, "The Maitland F. Griggs Collection," Art News 35, no. 31 (May 1, 1937), 156
  • Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del rinascimento: catalogo dei principali artisti e delle loro opere (Milan, Italy: Ulrico Hoepli, 1936), 269
  • 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), 313
  • Raimond van Marle, "Ancora quadri senesi," La Diana 6 (1931), 170, fig. pl. 5
  • F. Mason Perkins, "Luca di Tommè," Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (1929), 427
  • Helen Comstock, "Luca di Tommè in American Collections," International Studio 89 (January 1928), 58–9, ill
  • F. Mason Perkins, "Altre pittura di Luca di Tommè," Rassegna d'arte senese 18, nos. 1–2 (March 1924), 15
  • American Art Association, New York, Illustrated catalogue of the art collection of the expert antiquarians C. and E. Canessa, sale cat. (January 25–26, 1924), no. 152, fig. 152
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

Subject

Mary saints

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