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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.149.B
People
Master of Saint Mark, Spanish
Title
Center panel for Master of Saint Mark, "Nativity Scene with Saints"
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Center panel for Master of Saint Mark, "Nativity Triptych-retable from Cardona"
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
14th century
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/386498

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera and gold leaf on panel
Dimensions
center panel: 186 × 98 × 4 cm, 16 kg (73 1/4 × 38 9/16 × 1 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Unidentified dealer, Rome], sold; to Mrs. Winthrop Murray Crane, 1929, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. W. Murray Crane
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.149.B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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)
  • Mojmír S. Frinta, Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting, Maxdorf Publishers (Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1998), p. 91, under no. C4A; p. 96, under C15N
  • Celia Chari, Cristina Morilla, and Alex Chipkin, The Rediscovery of a Masterpiece: the Conservation of the Cardona Altarpiece at Harvard Art Museums, AIC 52nd Annual Meeting, American Institute for Conservation (https://www.culturalheritage.org/docs/default-source/publications/periodicals/annual-meeting/2024-aic-annual-meeting-program-and-abstracts.pdf?sfvrsn=edeb1120_3, May 23, 2024), Page 106

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