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(The Master of Stratonice) Michele di Michele Ciampanti (documented 1463-1511)

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(The Master of Stratonice) Michele di Michele Ciampanti (documented 1463-1511)

The Madonna and Child with an Angel holding a Basket of Fruit

tempera on marouflaged panel, arched top
28 x 16 3/8in. (71 x 41.6cm.)
Provenance
Lederer Collection, Vienna and Geneva
Literature
B. Berenson, Homeless Paintings of the Sienese Quattrocento, International Studio, 98, March 1931; reprinted in Homeless Paintings of the Renaissance, ed. H. Kiel, London, 1969, pp. 62-3, fig. 92
B. Berenson, Quadri senza casa - Il Quattrocento senese, Dedalo, XI, 1931, pp. 735ff.
R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, XVI, The Hague, 1937, pp. 512-13
E.P. Fahy, Some Notes on the Stratonice Master, Paragone, XVII, no. 197, July 1966, p. 24, pl. 21
B.B. Fredericksen, The Earliest Painting by the 'Stratonice Master', Paragone, XVII, no. 197, July 1966, p.54
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London, 1968, I, p. 256; II, pl. 832
M. Tazartes in La Pittura in Italia: Il Quattrocento, ed. M. Natale, Milan, 1987, II, p. 697
A. Galli in the catalogue of the exhibition, Francesco di Giorgio e il Rinascimento a Siena 1450-1500, Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Siena, 25 April-31 July 1993, p. 525

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