Madonna and Child with Saints, Crucifixion and Nativity

mid-14th century

Allegretto Nuzi Italian, ca. between 1316 and 1320 - ca. between 1373 and 1374

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European: Medieval and Renaissance Gothic Chapel, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Madonna and Child with Saints, Crucifixion and Nativity

Artwork Date mid-14th century

Artist Allegretto Nuzi

Life Dates ca. between 1316 and 1320 - ca. between 1373 and 1374

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 Tempera on wood panel

Dimensions Overall: 30 1/2 × 21 × 5 inches (77.5 × 53.3 × 12.7 cm) Displayed under vitrine on a base: 33 3/8 × 24 3/8 × 10 1/4 inches (84.8 × 61.9 × 26 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. 89.19

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Provenance

until 1880s, Marchese del Turco (Florence, Italy);
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Scripps, James E., ed. Detroit Museum of Art Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. Detroit, 1889, p. 11, cat. 2 [as triptych attributed to Giotto].

"The Scripps Old Masters." The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152; p. 150 [as attributed to Giotto di Bondone, "Small triptych"].

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, pp. 7-8.

Logan, M. "L'exposition d'ancien art ombrien à Pérouse." Gazette des Beaux Arts 38 (1907): pp. 218-236, 222.

Berenson, B. Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance. London, 1908, p. 131 [as first ascribed triptych to Nuzi].

Detroit Museum of Art Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, no. 3 [as by Giotto].

Post, C.R. "A Triptych by Allegretto Nuzi at Detroit." Bulletin of the DMA 10, no. 2 (October 1915): pp. 1-8 (ill.).

Post, C.R. "A Triptych by Allegretto Nuzi at Detroit." Art in America 3 (August 1915): pp. 213-222 (fig. 1).

Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 32, no. 21 (ill.).

Berenson, B. "Prime opere di Allegretto Nuzi." Bolletino d'Arte 1, ser. 2 (January 1922): pp. 297-309, note 3.

Marle, R. van. Local Schools of Central and Southern Italy of the Fourteenth Century. Vol. 5, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. The Hague, 1925, pp. 138-140.

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 159 (ill.).

Berenson, B. "Early Paintings by Alegretto Nuzi." Studies in Medieval Painting. New Haven, 1930, pp. 63-74; p. 68, note, (fig. 60).

Valentiner, W.R. "Supplementary remarks on already published works." Bulletin of the DIA 13, no. 3 (December 1931): p. 33.

Venturi, L. Pitture Italiane in America. Milan, 1931, (pl. XC).

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 399.

Venturi, L. Italian Paintings in America, vol. 1. New York, 1933, no. 110 (ill.).

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 343.

Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic Painting, Guide 6. Detroit, 1944, pp. 39-40 (fig. 16).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 97, no. 159 [as ca. 1365].

Detroit Institute of Arts Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture. Detroit, 1949, p. 37 (ill.).

Marabotti, A. "Allegretto Nuzi." Rivista d'Arte 27 (1951/1952): pp. 23-55; pp. 30-32 (fig. 2).

Shorr, D.C. The Christ Child In Devotional Images In Italy During The XIV Century. New York, 1954, p. 147 (fig. 22), [Florence 4] (detail).

Gnau, A. Diabolus In Musica. Detroit, 1955, p. 42 (ill.).

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 81.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 65 (ill.).

Klesse, B. Seidenstoffe In der italienischen Malerei des 14 Jahrhunderts. Bern, 1967, pp. 133, 228 (fig. 112a).

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. 1. London, 1968, p. 302.

Fredericksen, B., and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, pp. 4, 135.

Boskovits, M. Pittura fiorentina all vigilia del rinascimento, 1370-1400. Florence, 1975, p. 198, no. 73.

Marcelli, F. Allegretto di Nuzio, Pittore Fabrianese. Fabriano, 2004, pp. 38, 3 (fig. 25).

L'eredità di Giotto. Arte a Firenze 1340-1375. Exh. cat., Galleria degli Uffzi. Florence, 2008, p. 126, cat. 16.

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Allegretto Nuzi, Madonna and Child with Saints, Crucifixion and Nativity, mid-14th century, tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.19.