About the Artwork
Gradual Leaf: Historiated "V" with Annunciation
ca. 1350
Lippo Vanni
1341-1376
Italian
Unknown
Ink and pigment on parchment
Sheet (irregular): 21 1/2 × 14 1/2 inches (54.6 × 36.8 cm)
Manuscripts
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
35.95.A
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Provenance
Six collection (Holland)
Dr. N. Beets
1935-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 15, no. 3 (1935): pp. 30-31.
Marle, R. van. "Cinque Miniature di Lippo Vanni." La Diana 4 (1929): p. 159ff.
Master Drawings of the Renaissance. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1960, no. 1.
Medieval and Renaissance Music Manuscripts. Exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, 1953, no. 54.
Os, H. W. van. "Lippo Vanni as a Miniaturist." Simiolus 7, 2 (1974): p. 70 (fig. 5) (ill.) (article, pp. 67-90).
Tanis, J.R. ed. Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections. Philadelphia, 2001, p. 170 (mentioned by C.B. Strehlke in entry for cat. no. 58, where dated mid-1340s).
Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic Painting. Detroit, 1944, p. 16 (fig. 5).
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Lippo Vanni, Gradual Leaf: Historiated "V" with Annunciation, ca. 1350, ink and pigment on parchment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 35.95.A.
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