Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist and Angels

between 1460 and 1480

Pier Francesco Fiorentino Italian, active 1470 - 1500

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About the Artwork

Title Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist and Angels

Artwork Date between 1460 and 1480

Artist Pier Francesco Fiorentino

Life Dates active 1470 - 1500

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 (irreg.): 28 3/4 × 15 3/4 inches (73 × 40 cm) Framed: 38 × 24 7/8 × 2 7/8 inches (96.5 × 63.2 × 7.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of James E. Scripps

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. 89.14

Markings

Marks Marked, verso, label: N8/PG Marked, verso, label: Böhm Marked, verso, label: Filippino Lippi

Provenance

collection of Tassi (Florence, Italy);
collection of James E. Scripps [1835-1906] (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue of the Scripps Collection of Old Masters. Detroit, 1889, pp. 11-12, cat. 3 [as attributed to Alessio Baldovinetti].

"The Scripps Old Masters." The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152; p. 149 [as attributed to Alessio Baldovinetti, “The Virgin Adoring the Infant Saviour”].

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 8.

Berenson, B. The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance. New York, 1909, p. 167.

Handbook of Paintings of Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, p. 12, no. 4 (repr.) [as by Alessio Baldovinetti].

Bulletin of the DIA 1, no. 7 (April 1920): p. 103 (repr.).

Burroughs, C. Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 27, no. 14 (repr.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 169 (repr.) [as Pier Francesco Fiorentino].

Van Marle, R. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 13. The Hague, 1931, pp. 438, 460 [cited; mentions DIA panel as composition adapted from Baldovinetti].

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 450 [as Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino].

Mseriantz, M. "Two new panels by Pier Francesco Fiorentino." Art in America 23 (1935): pp. 103-112; p. 110 (repr.).

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 386.

Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 102, no. 169 [as Pier Francesco Fiorentino, but acknowledges Berenson's attribution to the Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino].

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1. London, 1963, p. 172 [as Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino composition "based on Pesellino at Boston and Toledo and Lippi, Berlin 69"].

Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 87.

Fredericksen, B., and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 134.

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Pier Francesco Fiorentino, Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist and Angels, between 1460 and 1480, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.14.