About the Artwork
Christ Enthroned, the Virgin, Saint Francesca Romana, an Angel and Donor
between 1470 and 1475
Antoniazzo Romano
1435/40–1508
Italian
Unknown
Tempera on wood panel
Image: 17 15/16 × 14 inches (45.6 × 35.6 cm) Overall: 20 7/8 × 16 1/8 × 2 3/8 inches (53 × 41 × 6 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
City of Detroit Purchase
26.111
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
until 1914, private collection (Florence, Italy)
May 7-9, 1914, auctioned (Florence, Italy), lot 38
possibly between 1914 and 1925, (Luigi Grassi, Florence, Italy)
until 1926, collection of Achillito Chiesa (Milan, Italy)
April 16, 1926, auctioned by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA), pt. 2, lot 19
1926, purchased by (F. Kleinberger, New York, New York, USA)
1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Longhi, R. "In favore di Antoniazzo Romano," Vita Artistica (1927): p. 228. Reprint, Longhi, R. Saggi e ricerche,1925-1928. Florence, 1967 [dates picture to ca. 1475].
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 4, (repr.).
Berenson, B. Italian Pictures Of The Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 26 [listed as Christ in Glory, a kneeling Worshipper, Angels, and two Female Saints; as done in part by artist].
Van Marle, R. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. The Hague, 1934, vol. 15, pp. 264, 265, note 1; p. 279 [mistakenly lists picture as formerly in Booth collection; suggests late date ca. 1490].
Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 22 [as in part by artist].
Mostra Di Melozzo e del Quattrocento Romagnolo. Exh. cat., Palazzo dei Musei. Forlì, 1938, p. 47, cat. 67 [entry by C. Gnudi].
Richardson, E.P. Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, pp. 6-7, no. 4.
Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 9.
Berenson, B. 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, vol. 1. London, 1968, p. 15 [as in part by the artist].
Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 10.
Noehles, G. "Antoniazzo Romano." Ph.D. diss., Münster, 1973, pp. 45-46, 130.
Hedberg, G.S. "Antoniazzo Romano and his School." 2 vols., Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1980, pp. 161-62, cat. 10, (fig. 65), p. 200 (cited under cat. 56).
Paolucci, A. Antoniazzo Romano: catalogo completo (series: I gigli d'arte, 26). Florence, 1992, p. 127, cat. 37, (repr.) [notes similarity of panel with image in convent of S. Sabina, Rome].
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Antoniazzo Romano, Christ Enthroned, the Virgin, Saint Francesca Romana, an Angel and Donor, between 1470 and 1475, tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 26.111.
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