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Artist
The Magdalene Master and an Unknown Florentine Painter
Title
Madonna and Child and Two Angels, with Twelve Scenes from the Passion
Date
ca. 1310
Culture
Italian
Medium
Tempera on wood panel
Dimensions
67.3 x 179.4 cm (26-1/2 x 70-5/8 in.)
Accession Number
1967: 001
Credit Line
The Magdalene Master and an Unknown Florentine Painter, Madonna and Child and Two Angels, with Twelve Scenes from the Passion, ca. 1310, tempera on panel, 67.3 x 179.4 cm (26-1/2 x 70-5/8 in.), Putnam Foundation, Timken Museum of Art.
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Description
In medieval art, paintings were usually part of a larger work, for example, a mural painted on a church or monastery wall. During the thirteenth
century, individual wood panels that illustrated church doctrine and scenes from the life of Christ began to appear in Florence, Siena, and other Italian towns. The central image of this panel, depicting the Madonna and Child, was among the last works by an artist known today as the Magdalene Master. The style of this image differs from the style of the 12 scenes of the Passion on either side, which were painted by an unknown Florentine artist.

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Provenance

Santa Maria dei Candeli, Florence (?); Mr. F., 1930 (per Richter 1930); Piero Tozzi, New York (per Garrison 1946); Jacob Hirsch, New York, by 1946; T. S. Hyland, Greenwich, Connecticut; Acquired by the Putnam Foundation, 1967

Exhibited

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, :1965, An Exhibition of Italian Panels and Manuscripts from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in Honor of Richard OffneJ pp.10-1:1, no. 2, ill

Literature

George Martin Richter, "Megliore di Jacopo and the Magdalen Master," Burlington Magazine 57 (November 1930): 230 n.13, 235; Edward B.
Garrison, "The Oxford Christ Church Library Panel and the Milan Sessa Collection Shutters: A Tentative Reconstruction of a Tabernacle and a Group of Romanizing Florentine Panels," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 29 (June 1946): 321-46, fig. 27; Richard Offne, An Early Florentine Dossal (Florence, n.d.[1946?]); Gertrude Coor-Achenbach, "A Neglected Work by the Magdalen Master," Burlington Magazine 89 (1947): 120 nn. 7,13; Roberto Longhi, "Giudizio sui duecento," Proporzioni 2 (1948):19, 47; Edward B.Garrison, Italian Romanesque Panel Painting
(Florence, 1949), pp.27, 142, no. 367; Millard Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death (Princeton, 1951), p.129, fig. 118; Miklós Boskovits, "Un opera probabile di Giovanni di Bartolomeo Cristiani e l'iconografia della preparazione alia Croci-fissione," Acta Historiae Artium 11 (1965): 69-94; Giovanni Previtali, Giotto e la sua bottega (Milan, 1967), pp. 27, 30, 133 n. 44, fig. 27 (3d ed., 1993, pp. 36, 45); Agnes Mongan and Elizabeth Mongan, European Paintings in the Timken Art Gallery (San Diego, 1969), pp. 18-19, 107, no. 1, ill.; Burton Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collection (Cambridge,
Mass., :1972), pp. 53,:131,281,283-86,288,294, 297-98,310, 632; Miklós Boskovits, Cimabue e i precursori di Giotto (Florence, 1976), p. 70 n.4; Martin E. Petersen, "Three Centuries of European Paintings, 13oo-16oo," Apollo 11.5 (June 1982): 441, fig. 1; Timken Art Gallery European and American Works of Art in the Putnam Foundation.

Note

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