Currently not on view
Birth of the Virgin
Altichiero, active Italy, ca. 1364–93
y1935-14
Information
Title
Birth of the Virgin
Maker
Medium
Tempera on wood panel
Dimensions
35.5 x 39.5 cm (14 x 15 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry White Cannon Jr., Class of 1910, in memory of his Father
Object Number
y1935-14
Place Collected
Verona
Culture
Materials
Subject
Purchased by Jean Paul Richter (1847-1937) from a villa near Verona in January 1911 for Henry White Cannon (1850-1934), Fiesole; by descent to his son, Henry (Harry) W. Cannon, Jr. (1887-1966), Class of 1910; Donated to the Museum in 1935.
- Jean Paul Richter, A descriptive catalogue of old masters of the Italian school, (Florence: Galileiana, 1907-1914)., no. 6; p. 48-50
- Evelyn Sandberg Vavalà, "A chapter in fourteenth century iconography: Verona", Art bulletin 11, no. 4 (Dec., 1929): p. 376-412., p. 376-412; fig. 3, fig. 67
- Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., "Veronese primitives in the Cannon Collection", Art in America 24 (1936)., p. 57
- Jean Paul Richter, The Cannon Collection of italian paintings of the Renaissance: mostly of the Veronese School..., (Princeton, NJ: Princetion University Press, 1936)., no. 15; p. 21-22; fig. 15
- B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 99
