The Crucifixion; Virgin Annunciate, One of Three Panels from a Triptych

Artist: Niccolò di Pietro Gerini (Florence, documented 1368–1414)

ca. 1400

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Tempera and gold on panel

Dimensions

overall 141.5 × 38.7 cm (55 3/4 × 15 1/4 in.);
The Crucifixion: picture surface: 86.5 × 34.0 cm (34 1/8 × 13 3/8 in.);
Virgin Annunciate: picture surface: 41.0 × 33.0 cm (16 1/8 × 13 in.)

Credit Line

University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves

Accession Number

1871.26c

Culture

Italian, Florence

Period

15th 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
James Jackson Jarves Collection, Florence, to 1871; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Stefan Weppelmann, Spinello Aretino und die Toskanische Malerei des 14. Jahrhunderts. (Florence, Italy: Edifir, 2003), 258–260, no. 60, plate VII/17 (Spinello Arentino), fig. 60
  • Angelo Tartuferi, "Spinello Aretino in San Michele Visdomini a Firenze (e alcune osservazioni su Lorenzo di Niccolò)," Paragone 34, 395 (January 1983), 8, 18n34, (central panel by Lorenzo di Niccolò, later panels by Spinello Aretino)
  • Richard Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting: The Fourteenth Century. Supplement: A Legacy of Attributions, ed. Hayden B. J. Maginnis (New York: Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1981), 83
  • Miklos Boskovits, Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370–1400 (Florence, Italy: Edam, 1975), 411, 438–439
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 81, 599
  • Charles Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), 53–54, no. 36b, fig. 36b
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places: The Florentine School, 2 vols. (London: Phaidon, 1963), 1:160
  • Francis Steegmuller, The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1951), 294
  • 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), 303, 396
  • Richard Offner, "Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, Part Two," Art in America 9, no. 6 (October 1921), 239, both lateral panels by Lorenzo di Niccolò, with central panel by immediate follower of Gerini
  • Osvald Sirén, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Jarves Collection Belonging to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916), 71–72, no. 26
  • William Rankin, Notes on the Collections of Old Masters at Yale University, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Museum of Harvard University (Wellesley, Mass.: Department of Art, Wellesley College, 1905), 8, no. 22
  • William Rankin, "Some Early Italian Pictures in the Jarves Collection of the Yale School of Fine Arts at New Haven," American Journal of Archaeology 10, no. 2 (April-June 1895), 142, no. 22
  • Russell Sturgis, Jr., Manual of the Jarves Collection of Early Italian Pictures (New Haven, Conn.: Yale College, 1868), 34–35, no. 22
  • James Jackson Jarves, Art Studies: The "Old Masters" of Italy; Painting (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1861), pl. D, fig. 12
  • James Jackson Jarves, Descriptive Catalogue of "Old Masters," Collected by James J. Jarves to Illustrate the History of Painting from A.D. 1200 to the Best Periods of Italian Art (Cambridge, Mass.: H. O. Houghton, 1860), 43, no. 18
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

religious art

Subject

crucifixions

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