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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1909.32
People
Apollonio de Giovanni di Tommaso, Italian (c. 1415 - 1465)
Previously attributed to Marco del Buono, Italian (1402 - 1489)
Title
The Virgin and Child with Angels
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1450
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228467

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
81.3 x 53 cm (32 x 20 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The William M. Prichard Fund
Accession Year
1909
Object Number
1909.32
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Albert G. Hess, Italian Renaissance Paintings with Musical Subjects: A Corpus of such Works in American Collections, with Detailed Descriptions of the Musical Features, Libra Press (New York, 1955), No. XCIa.
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 12 [as by Giovanni di Apollonio]
  • Gianfranco Pocobene, "Apollonio di Giovanni's Virgin and Child with Four Angels Playing Musical Instruments: Technical Examination and Conservation" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, July 1989), Unpublished, pp. 1-20 passim
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 98, 303, repr. b/w cat. no. 564
  • Carl Brandon Strehlke, Italian Paintings 1250-1450 in the John G. Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 2004), p. 64

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