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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1922.108
People
Duccio di Buoninsegna, Italian (active c. 1278 - died 1319)
Title
Virgin and Child, with Scenes from the Lives of Christ and Saint Francis
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1280
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Siena
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231720

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
open: 49.7 × 25.4 × 5 cm (19 9/16 × 10 × 1 15/16 in.)
closed: 34.4 × 24.5 × 5 cm (13 9/16 × 9 5/8 × 1 15/16 in.)
left panel: 31.9 × 12 × 5 cm (12 9/16 × 4 3/4 × 1 15/16 in.)
central panel, painted surface: 28.8 × 21.2 × 5 cm (11 5/16 × 8 3/8 × 1 15/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. William Herman
Accession Year
1922
Object Number
1922.108
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 239 [as Siena, 14th century]
  • 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1927-1952" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies , August 1977), Unpublished, pp. 1-60 passim
  • 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. 106, 280, repr. b/w cat. no. 473
  • William Cook, Images of St. Francis of Assisi in painting, stone and glass, from the earliest images to ca. 1320 in Italy, L. S. Olschki (Florence, Italy, 1999), no. 46, pp. 80-81, detail repr.
  • Victor M. Schmidt, Painted Piety: Panel Paintings for Personal Devotion in Tuscany, 1250-1400, Centro Di (Florence, Italy, 2005), p. 50; repr. p. 51 as figs. 34, 35

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