Pieta and Angel of the Annunciation

between 1350 and 1375

Master of the Pieta Italian, active ca. 1350

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Title Pieta and Angel of the Annunciation

Artwork Date between 1350 and 1375

Artist Master of the Pieta

Life Dates active ca. 1350

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. Unknown

Medium Tempera on wood panel

Dimensions Overall: 21 1/4 × 6 5/8 × 7/8 inches (54 × 16.8 × 2.2 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass in memory of her father Peter Henkel

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. 35.12

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Provenance

ca. 1926, acquired by Julius H. Haass (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
by inheritance, Lillian Henkel Haass [1879-1960] (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1935-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Sandberg-Vavala, E. La croce dipinta italiana e l'iconografia della passione. Verona, 1929, p. 308, note 41 [as close to Barna da Siena].

Borenius, T. [as by Ugolino Lorenzetti].

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 528 [as by unknown Sienese master close to Andrea Vanni].

Loan Exhibition of Italian Paintings from the XIV to XVI Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, March 8-30, 1933, cat. 45 [lent by Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass, as by "Ugolino-Lorenzetti"/Ovile Master].

Rathbone, P. T. "Two wings of a Sienese tryptich of the Trecento," Bulletin of the DIA 14, no. 8 (May 1935): pp. 104-106, (repr.).

Kauffman, H. Donatello. Berlin, 1935, p. 254, note 632 [as by Barna da Siena].

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 454 [as by an unknown Sienese master close to Andrea Vanni; owned by Julius Haass].

Valentiner, W. R. Italian Gothic Painting. Detroit, 1944, pp. 16, 18-19, (fig. 6).

Richardson, E. P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 68, no. 581B.

Meiss, M. "Italian Primitives at Konopiste," Art Bulletin, vol. 28, no. 1 (March 1946): pp. 1-16, esp. p. 8, 10, note 65, (fig. 15) [as by Master of the Pietà, based on comparison with another pieta in David Museum, Angers, and a diptych in Konopiste, near Prague].

Carli, E. La pittura senese. Milan, 1955, p. 176.

De Giotto á Bellini. Exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, 1956, p. 14, no. 9 [DIA panel cited in conjunction with panel in Campana collection, as by Master of the Pietà].

Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 57.

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of pre-19th century Italian paintings in North American Collections. 1972, p. [?] [as by Master of the Pietà, c.1350].

Caleca, A. "Tre polittici di Lippo Memmi, un ipotesi sul Barna e la bottega di Simone di Lippo," 2, Critica d'arte, vol. 42 (January-June 1977): pp. 75, 79, (fig. 59) [incorrectly attributes to Master of the Strauss Madonna and as belonging to the Ashmolean Museum--see letter by Everett Fahy, 18 May 1978].

De Benedictis, C. La pittura senese, 1330-1370. Firenze, 1979, p. 91 [Monografie e studi a cura dell'Istituto di storia dell'arte dell'Università di Firenze: Medioevo e Rinascimento].

Torriti, P. La Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena. Genova, 1990, p. 129 [DIA picture cited in relation to cat. 156].

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Master of the Pieta, Pieta and Angel of the Annunciation, between 1350 and 1375, tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass in memory of her father Peter Henkel, 35.12.