1914.9.A: The Archangel Gabriel of the Annunciation

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1914.9.A

People

Andrea Vanni, Italian (c. 1332 - c. 1414)

Title

The Archangel Gabriel of the Annunciation

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

14th-15th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Siena

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231981

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Tempera on wood panel

Dimensions

72.4 x 41.3 x 6 cm (28 1/2 x 16 1/4 x 2 3/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund

Accession Year

1914

Object Number

1914.9.A

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Jerrold Ziff, "The Reconstruction of an Altarpiece by Andrea Vanni", The Art Bulletin (June 1957), Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 138-142, pp. 138-142, repr. as fig. 3
• 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. 208
• 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. 132, 294, repr. b/w cat. no. 531
• Elizabeth Bradford Smith, Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting 1800-1940, exh. cat., Palmer Museum of Art (University Park, PA, 1996), repr. in b/w p. 174

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