Property belonging to the Estate of Mary, Viscountess Rothemere
ANDREA DI BONAIUTO, called ANDREA DA FIRENZE* (active second half of the 14th Century)
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ANDREA DI BONAIUTO, called ANDREA DA FIRENZE* (active second half of the 14th Century)
A Triptych: The Coronation of the Virgin with Saints Catherine (?), Nicholas of Bari, Stephen, Anthony of Padua, John the Baptist, Bonaventura, Louis of Toulouse, Lawrence, Francis, Clare, James Major, Peter, and four music-making Angels (center panel); in the roundel above, Christ blessing; on the wings, The Adoration of the Magi, with the Angel of the Annunciation above (left); The Crucifixion, with the Virgin Annunciate above (right); and on the base, the Man of Sorrows between Saint John the Evangelist and the Madonna
tempera on gold ground panel, the surround of a later date
23¾ x 24 3/8in. (62.9 x 62cm.) overall
A Triptych: The Coronation of the Virgin with Saints Catherine (?), Nicholas of Bari, Stephen, Anthony of Padua, John the Baptist, Bonaventura, Louis of Toulouse, Lawrence, Francis, Clare, James Major, Peter, and four music-making Angels (center panel); in the roundel above, Christ blessing; on the wings, The Adoration of the Magi, with the Angel of the Annunciation above (left); The Crucifixion, with the Virgin Annunciate above (right); and on the base, the Man of Sorrows between Saint John the Evangelist and the Madonna
tempera on gold ground panel, the surround of a later date
23¾ x 24 3/8in. (62.9 x 62cm.) overall
Literature
Works of Art in the Collection of Viscount Rothermere, introduction and notes by P.G. Konody, 1932, pl. 4, as Bernardo Daddi T. Borenius, Treasures from the Rothermere Collection-I, Apollo, XXII, Oct. 1935, pp. 185-186, illustrated p. 187, as attributed to Daddi, but noting that it 'approaches more nearly the manner of the group which centers around the painter Andrea Orcagna'
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, 1947, vol. 5, section 3, p. 212, no. 1, as workshop of Andrea da Firenze
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, 1963, I, p. 162, as Niccolò di Tommaso
C. Volpe in the catalogue of the exhibition, Mostra dei dipinti del XIV e XV secolo, Finarte, Milan, Feb. 16-March 7, 1971, under no. 18, as possibly Andrea di Bonaiuto
M. Boskovits, Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370-1400, 1975, pp. 278-279, as Andrea di Bonaiuti
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, A Legacy of Attributions; supplement to 'The Fourteenth Century', ed. Hayden B.J. Maginnis, 1980, p. 87, as Master of the Blue Crucifixion (a follower of Andrea di Bonaiuto)
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, 1947, vol. 5, section 3, p. 212, no. 1, as workshop of Andrea da Firenze
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, 1963, I, p. 162, as Niccolò di Tommaso
C. Volpe in the catalogue of the exhibition, Mostra dei dipinti del XIV e XV secolo, Finarte, Milan, Feb. 16-March 7, 1971, under no. 18, as possibly Andrea di Bonaiuto
M. Boskovits, Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370-1400, 1975, pp. 278-279, as Andrea di Bonaiuti
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, A Legacy of Attributions; supplement to 'The Fourteenth Century', ed. Hayden B.J. Maginnis, 1980, p. 87, as Master of the Blue Crucifixion (a follower of Andrea di Bonaiuto)