The Madonna and Four Saints Adoring the Infant Jesus

ca. 1495

Bartolomeo di Giovanni Italian, active 1470/75 - 1501

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Title The Madonna and Four Saints Adoring the Infant Jesus

Artwork Date ca. 1495

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 cradled wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 15 × 9 3/4 inches (38.1 × 24.8 cm) Framed: 22 × 17 1/8 × 1 7/8 inches (55.9 × 43.5 × 4.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass

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. 52.229

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Provenance

until 1927, (Paul Bottenweiser, Berlin, Germany);
Julius H. Haass (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
by inheritance, Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1952-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Van Marle, R. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 13. The Hague, 1931, p. 256 [as by Bartolommeo di Giovanni; in Haass collection].

Berenson, B. Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places. Oxford, 1932, p. 6 [as Alunno di Domenico; picture in Haass collection].

Sixteenth Loan Exhibition of Italian Paintings from the XIV to the XVI Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, March 8-30, 1933, cat. 29 [lent by L. H. Haass].

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 5 [in Haass collection].

Richardson, E.P. "An Adoration of the Christ Child by Bartolommeo di Giovanni." Bulletin of the DIA 32, no. 4 (1952-3): pp. 83-85.

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1. New York, 1963, p. 25 [predella panel, restored/repainted].

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. dissertation, Harvard University, 1968 [Garland series, New York, 1976], p. 134, cat. 21 [as "Nativity with St. Gregory and Two Other Saints"].

Frederickson, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings. Cambridge, 1972, p. 16.

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Bartolomeo di Giovanni, The Madonna and Four Saints Adoring the Infant Jesus, ca. 1495, paint on cradled wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass, 52.229.