Virgin Enthroned with Saints, Nativity and Crucifixion

ca. between 1335 and 1350

Maso di Banco Italian, active 1335-1350

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Virgin Enthroned with Saints, Nativity and Crucifixion

Artwork Date ca. between 1335 and 1350

Artist Maso di Banco

Life Dates active 1335-1350

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. ----------

Medium Tempera on wood panel

Dimensions Overall (Open): 22 7/8 × 20 1/2 × 2 7/8 inches (58.1 × 52.1 × 7.3 cm) Overall (Closed): 22 7/8 × 13 1/4 × 2 inches (58.1 × 33.7 × 5.1 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. 25.41

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Inscriptions On back, two labels with number T151

Marks Two labels, on verso: T151

Provenance

Sterpini (Ferrara, Italy);
by inheritence to Count Magnonii (Ferrara, Italy);
Marcelle Nicolle (Paris, France);
1920, Hermann Heilbuth (Copenhagen, Denmark);
1925, (Rene Trotti, Paris, France);
(Bourgeois Galleries, New York, New York, USA);
1925-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings. Exh. cat., Danish Museum of Fine Art. Copenhagen, 1920, p. 4, no. 3 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. "Early Florentine Paintings." Bulletin of the DIA 7, no. 2 (November 1925): pp. 18-21, pp. 18-19 (ill.). [as by follower of Bernardo Daddi.]

Comstock, H. "The Bernardo Daddis in the United States." International Studio 89 no. 370, part 2 (March 1928): pp. 71-76, 90, p. 76 (ill.). [central panel as by follower of Bernardo Gaddi, the wings as by follower of Taddeo Gaddi.]

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 49 (ill.). [as Manner of Bernardo Daddi.]

Coletti, L. "Contributo al problema Maso-Giottino." Emporium 96 (November 1942): p. 470. [as by the Master of the Louvre Crucifixion.]

Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic Painting. Detroit, 1944, pp. 23, 25 (fig. 10). [reattributed panel to Maso di Banco.]

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, pp. 83-84, no. 49 (ill.).

Paintings in the DIA: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 72.

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 123 [as School of Maso di Banco.]

Boskovitz, M. Pittura fiorentina alla Vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370-1400. Florence, 1975, p. 199, note 85.

Wilkins, D. Maso di Banco: A Florentine Artist of the Early Trecento. New York and London, 1985, p. 200, cat. B-12. Garland Dissertations in the Fine Arts.

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Maso di Banco, Virgin Enthroned with Saints, Nativity and Crucifixion, ca. between 1335 and 1350, tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 25.41.