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The Master of the Johnson Nativity (active Florence, 2nd half 15th Century)
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The Master of the Johnson Nativity (active Florence, 2nd half 15th Century)

The Symbols of the Passion: a fragment

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The Master of the Johnson Nativity (active Florence, 2nd half 15th Century)
The Symbols of the Passion: a fragment
oil on panel
16½ x 13¼ in. (41.8 x 33.6 cm.)
來源
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.
出版
L. Venturi, 'Reconstruction of a Painting by Andrea del Castagno', Art Quarterly, VII, Winter 1944, pp. 23-33, as Andrea del Castagno.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Florentine School, 1963, I, p. 146, as possibly by the Master of San Miniato.
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拍品專文

This is a part of the altarpiece of which eight fragments were brought out of Russia in 1933 by P.G. Konody. Roger Fry, Tancred Borenius and Lionello Venturi accepted the attribution to Andrea del Castagno, and in 1944 Venturi made a convincing reconstruction of the original altarpiece, in which he included a ninth panel that he had discovered in a New York collection. The eight fragments represented: The Magdalen; The Servant of Caiaphas with Christ's clothes; The Veil of Saint Veronica; Saint John the Evangelist; The Virgin at the Foot of the Cross; The Kiss of Judas; Three Hands (the present picture); Christ crowned with Thorns; and Saint Peter. The ninth panel found by Venturi showed a Bust of Christ.

Berenson, loc. cit., tentatively attributed the altarpiece to the Master of San Miniato, incorrectly locating the entire set in New Haven; in fact they had been split up, three reappearing to be sold from Baron Hatvany's collection in these Rooms, 11 July 1980, lot 24, as by a follower of Jacopo del Sellaio (sold £2,600). Gugetta Dalli Regali, in a letter to Everett Fahy in 1988, attributed the works to the Master of the Johnson Nativity, a late-fifteenth-century artist whose work Everett Fahy had started to assemble in Paragone, July 1966; this attribution is accepted by Fahy. The Master has been plausibly identified with Fra Filippo Lippi's assistant, Domenico di Zanobi (active 1467-1480).