The Adoration of the Magi

between 1480 and 1510

Bartolomeo di Giovanni Italian, active 1470/75 - 1501

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About the Artwork

Title The Adoration of the Magi

Artwork Date between 1480 and 1510

Artist Bartolomeo di Giovanni

Life Dates active 1470/75 - 1501

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Paint on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 11 1/4 × 17 1/8 inches (28.6 × 43.5 cm) Framed: 14 7/8 × 21 × 2 (37.8 × 53.3 × 5.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 30.279

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Provenance

1922, Max Rothschild (London, England);
before 1929, (Dr. Frölich, Vienna, Austria);
1930-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Suida, W. Leonardo und sein Kreis. 1929, p. 31, note 2, (fig. 25) [as by Lorenzo di Credi].

Valentiner, W.R. "A predella panel by Filippino Lippi," Bulletin of the DIA 11, no. 7 (1929-30): pp. 93-96 [as by Filippino Lippi].

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 127, (repr.) [as Filippino Lippi].

van Marle, R. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 12. The Hague, 1931, p. 359, note [as by Filippino Lippi].

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; a list of the principal artists and their works. Oxford, 1932, p. 6 [as by Alunno di Domenico, otherwise known as Bartolommeo di Giovanni].

Scharf, A. Filippino Lippi. Vienna, 1935, p. 114, cat. 98, (fig. 213) [as by follower of Filippino Lippi].

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 5 [as by Alunno di Domenico, otherwise known as Bartolommeo di Giovanni].

Neilson, K.B. Filippino Lippi, a critical study. New York, 1938. Reprint, 1972, pp. 216-17, pl. 112 [as Florentine working under influence of Leonardo da Vinci and Lorenzo di Credi].

Richardson, E.P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 9, no. 127.

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1. New York, 1963, p. 25 [as by Bartolommeo di Giovanni].

Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 11.

Fahy, E. "Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandaio," Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1968, p. 85 [reprinted in Garland series, New York, 1976].

B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 110 [as part of a predella by Lorenzo di Credi].

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Bartolomeo di Giovanni, The Adoration of the Magi, between 1480 and 1510, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 30.279.