Currently not on view
Virgin Mary
follower of Fra Angelico, ca. 1400–1455; born Vicchio, Italy; died Rome, Italy; active Florence, Italy
y1933-16
Information
Title
Virgin Mary
Maker
follower of Fra Angelico
Medium
Tempera on wood panel
Dimensions
30 x 13.5 cm. (11 13/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
frame: 30 × 13.5 × 1.9 cm (11 13/16 × 5 5/16 × 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection Fund
Object Number
y1933-16
Culture
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Subject
Collection of Count Vetter von der Lilie, Vienna. E. and A. Silberman, NYC; 1933 museum purchase.
- Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del rinascimento: catalogo dei principali artisti e delle loro opere, con un indice dei luoghi, (Milano: U. Hoepli, 1936)., p. 20
- Mario Salmi, "Problemi dell'Angelico," Commentari 1, no. 3 (1950)., p. 149; fig. 150 (illus.)
- J. Pope-Hennessy, Fra Angelico, (London: Phaidon, 1952)., p. 203
- Mario Salmi, Mostra delle opere del beato Angelico nel quinto centenario della morte (1455-1955), (Firenze: Florence. Mostra delle opere del beato Angelico nel quinto centenario della morte, 1455-1955, 1955)., p. 108; pl. 86, p. 84
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The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)
, no. 44 - Edna P. Gurewitsch, Art Unites Nations: an exhibition of paintings for the benefit of the American Association for the United Nations, (New York: E. and A. Silberman Galleries, 1957)., no. 2
- Bernard Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places: Florentine school, (London: Phaidon Press, 1963)., p. 15
- 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, (London: Phaidon, 1968).
- B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 9
- John Pope-Hennessy, Fra Angelico, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974)., p. 231; fig. 104
