Madonna and Child with Two Angels

15th century

Master of the San Miniato Altarpiece Italian

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Title Madonna and Child with Two Angels

Artwork Date 15th century

Artist Master of the San Miniato Altarpiece

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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: 19 5/8 × 13 3/4 inches (49.8 × 34.9 cm) Framed: 26 1/4 × 20 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (66.7 × 51.4 × 7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of James E. Scripps

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. 89.18

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Marks Marked, verso: [stempel with name of dealer Pisani, name of Filippo Lippi, and no. N31]

Provenance

until 1880's, (Luigi Pisani, Florence, Italy)

purchased by James E. Scripps [1835-1906] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. DMA. Detroit, 1889, p. 13, cat. 6 [attributed to Filippo Lippi].

“The Scripps Old Masters,” The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 150 [as attributed to Fra Filippo Lippi, “The Virgin and Infant Saviour”].

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 9.

"The James E. Scripps Collection of Old Masters," Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art, no. 3 (July 1904): pp. 104, esp. p. 2, (repr.) [as by Fra Filippo Lippi].

Handbook of Paintings of the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, p. 7, no. 7, (repr.) [as by Filippo Lippi].

Burroughs, C. Catalogue of paintings, sculpture and contemporary arts and crafts. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1920, p. 31, no. 20, (repr.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 141 [as by Master of San Miniato Altarpiece].

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 347 [as "Madonna and Child with Two Angels" by Master of St. Miniato].

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 284 [as Master of St. Miniato].

Van Marle, R. The Development of the Italian Schools of Paintings, vol. XVI (The Renaissance Painters of Tuscany). The Hague, 1937, p.198 [author notes that he saw replica of central figures for sale in London and later Amsterdam ca. 1936].

Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. DIA. Detroit, 1944, p. 87, no. 141.

Thieme-Becker. Allgemeines Lexicon der Bildenden Künstler, vol. 37. Leipzig, 1950, p. 298 [cited].

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1. London, 1963, p. 14 [as by Master of San Miniato Altarpiece].

Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. DIA. Detroit, 1965, p. 73.

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of pre-19th century Italian paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 135.

Dalli Regoli, G. Il "Maestro di San Miniato". Lo stato degli studi, i problemi, le risposte della filologia. Pisa, 1988, pp. 215-16 (illust. 134).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Master of the San Miniato Altarpiece, Madonna and Child with Two Angels, 15th century, tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.18.