Virgin Annunciate

between 1356 and 1399

Giovanni del Biondo Italian, active 1356-1399

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European: Medieval, Level 2, Central Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Virgin Annunciate

Artwork Date between 1356 and 1399

Artist Giovanni del Biondo

Life Dates active 1356-1399

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 Gilt and tempera on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 14 × 7 inches (35.6 × 17.8 cm) Framed: 25 1/2 × 10 5/8 inches (64.8 × 27 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

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. 29.316

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Provenance

until 1861, High altar, Oratorio di San Lorenzo (San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy);
Oratorio di S. Maria delle Grazie (San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy);
1920, returned to Oratorio di San Lorenzo (San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy);
ca. 1920-1927, stolen from Oratorio di San Lorenzo (San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy).
Conte Taddeo Pepoli (Bologna, Italy);
sold in (New York, New York, USA) auction Conte Taddeo Pepoli;
1929, Luigi Grassi (Florence, Italy);
1929-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Alberti, Gius M. Notizie istoriche della terra di San Giovanni di Vald'Arno, 1754, pp. 49-50. Mss. in Archivio Communale, San Giovanni Valdarno.

Dragomanni, F.G. Memorie della terra di San Giovanni, Firenze. Florence, 1834, pp. 28-29.

Inventario di tutti i dipinti in tavola, come in tela, ritrovati esistere nella chiesa prioria di S. Lorenzo in San Giovanni, quali sono stati trasferiti nella vecchia sagrestia dell'Oratoria di Maria Vergine delle Grazie, onde dar luogo all'esecuzione dei lavori di restauro, e riordinamento di detta chiesa e canonica. Mss. in Archivio Communale, San Giovanni Valdarno, 1861, no. 6.

Rondoni, F. Oratorio di S. Maria delle Grazie in S. Giovanni Valdarno, inventario degli oggetti d'arte. Ms. in Soprintendenza alle Gallerie. Florence, 1862, n.p.

Giamperi, V. Cenni storici dell'Oratorio di Maria SS. delle Grazie in San Giovanni nel Valdarno. San Giovanni, 1879, p. 39.

Cambi, O. Perizia del Restauro da farsi a diversi quadri esistenti nell'Oratorio della Madonna, in S. Giovanni di Val d'Arno, Ms. in Archivio Communale. San Giovanni Valdarno, ca. 1882, no. 13.

Carocci, G. Catalogo generale degli oggestti d'arte del Regno, Provincia di Arezzo, Comune di San Giovanni Valdarno, Oratorio di S. Maria delle Grazie, Ms. in Soprintendenza alle Gallerie, Florence, 1892, no. 8.

Gamba, C. Rivista d'Arte 5 (1907): pp. 23-243

Baldi, E. L'Oratorio della Madonna delle Grazie in S. Giovanni di Val d'Arno. Florence, 1914, p. 64.

Khvoskinsky, B. and M. Salmi. Pittori Toscani dal XIII al XVI secolo, vol. 2. Rome, 1914, p. 34.

Van Marle, R. Oude Kunst, vol. 5. 1920, p. 93.

Kurzwelly, J. "Giovanni del Biondo." Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon, vol. 14. Leipzig, 1921, p. 111.

Sirén, O. "Alcune note aggiuntive a quadri primitivi nella Galleria vaticana." L'Arte 24 (1921): p. 97.

Van Marle, R. The Development of the Italian School of Painting, vol. 3. The Hague, 1924, p. 520 (fig. 219) (ill.).

Vitzhum, G. and W. Volbach. Die Malerie und Plastik des Mittelalters in Italien. Potsdam, 1924, p. 305.

Heil, W. "Some Early Italian Paintings." Bulletin of the DIA 11, no. 2 (1929-30): p. 26 (ill.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 84 (ill.). [as by Lorenzo di Nicolo Gerini.]

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 240. [as by Giovanni del Biondo].

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Milan, 1936, p. 207.

Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic Painting. Detroit, 1944, p. 29 (fig. 11a).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 53, no. 84(a).

Salmi, M. "Postille alla Mostra di Arezzo." Commentari 2 (July-December 1951): p. 178.

Offner, R. "A ray of light on Giovanni del Biondo and Niccolo di Tommaso" M.K.I.F. 7 (July 1956): p. 188.

Berti, L. Il Museo della Basilica a S. Giovanni Valdarno. San Giovanni Valdarno, 1959, p. 11.

Berenson, B. Italian pictures of the Renaissance; Florentine School. London, 1963, vol. 1, pp. 8, 84.

Zeri, F. "Due profeti di Giovanni del Biondo e la loro origine." Bolletino d'Arte 49 (April-June 1964) pp. 127-130.

Shapely, F.R. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966, p. 36.

Offner, R. and K. Steinweg. A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. New York, 1967, vol. 4, sect. 4, pt. 1, pp. vii, pp. 136-143, pl. 31.

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 88.

Boskovits, M. Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370-1400. Florence, 1975, p. 306.

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Giovanni del Biondo, Virgin Annunciate, between 1356 and 1399, gilt and tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 29.316.