Madonna and Child Enthroned with Four Saints

14th century

School of Marches Italian, 1300-1400

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Madonna and Child Enthroned with Four Saints

Artwork Date 14th century

Artist School of Marches

Life Dates 1300-1400

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Tempera on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 18 × 10 3/8 inches (45.7 × 26.4 cm) Framed: 29 1/8 × 15 1/8 × 2 1/2 inches (74 × 38.4 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Lillian Henkel Haass

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 61.348

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, at base of throne: .OP MACI. TOI [ ]NCTI // .D FLORE.

Marks Label, on verso Seal, red, on verso: reggie repubblica [fragment] Seal, white, on verso: SOST // ROMA // C[O?]LLI

Provenance

private collection (near London, England)

possibly 1920s, (Bacri Frères, Paris, France)

until 1935, (John Levy Galleries, New York, New York, USA)

1935-1961, Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1961-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Offner, R. A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. New York, 1930, (vol. 2, sec.iii, pt. 1), pp. xv-xvi, 82-83, pl. XXXV. [as by Master of the Medici Polyptych.]

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 57.

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 126. [as by Master of the Medici Polyptych.]

"Master of the Capella Medici Triptych." Dictionary of Art, vol. 20. p. 641.

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School of Marches, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Four Saints, 14th century, tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Lillian Henkel Haass, 61.348.