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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1923.232
People
Giovanni Bellini, Italian (c. 1459 - 1516 Venice, Italy)
Title
The Virgin and Child
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1470
Culture
Italian, Venetian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231402

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
sight: 57.7 x 43.3 cm (22 11/16 x 17 1/16 in.)
frame: 88.4 x 72 x 8.8 cm (34 13/16 x 28 3/8 x 3 7/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Accession Year
1923
Object Number
1923.232
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; A List of the Principal Artists and their Works, with an Index of Places, Venetian School, Phaidon Press (London, 1957), p. 30
  • 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. 22
  • 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, 311, repr. b/w cat. no. 301
  • 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. 112-113, fig. 3.17

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