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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1927.207.1
People
Niccolò da Foligno, Italian (1430 - 1502)
Title
The Madonna Enthroned, from a triptych
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Umbria
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229115

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
147.7 x 84 cm (58 1/8 x 33 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Collection Murgi, Ancona, 1899. Possibly Mario Calistri, Siena. Edward W. Forbes, 1900, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1927

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes in memory of Charles Eliot Norton
Accession Year
1927
Object Number
1927.207.1
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. XCII
  • Edward Waldo Forbes, Yankee Visionary, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), p. 14, repr. in b/w p. 15
  • 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. 149
  • David Kolch, "Reconstruction System for Panel Painting Supports: A Review and Evaluation of Treatments in the Fogg Museum Laboratory, 1927-1952" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies , August 1977), Unpublished, pp. 1-60 passim
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 172, p. 152, repr.
  • 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. 123, 315, repr. b/w cat. no. 614
  • Marta Paraventi, "Camerino e il suo territorio: prima indagine sul patrimonio artistico disperso", Il Quattrocento a Camerino: luce e prospettiva nel cuore della Marca, F. Motta (Milan, Italy, 2000), pp. 116-128, p. 118; repr. p. 120 as fig. 6
  • Filippo Todini, Niccolò Alunno e la sua bottega, Quattroemme s.r.l. (Perugia, Italy, 2004), pp. 564-565, repr. as fig. IV37; details repr. pp. 312-313
  • Costanza Costanzi, Le Marche Disperse: Repertorio di Opere d'arte dalle Marche al Mondo, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 2005), p. 166, no. 177, repr.
  • Francesca Bewer, A Laboratory for Art: Harvard's Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900-1950, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA, 2010), p. 38-39, fig. 1.5

Exhibition History

  • Edward Waldo Forbes: Yankee Visionary, Fogg Art Museum, 01/16/1971 - 02/22/1971

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