Barnaba Agocchiari, called Barnaba da Modena (active Modena 1361-1383)
Barnaba Agocchiari, called Barnaba da Modena (active Modena 1361-1383)

The Madonna and Child

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Barnaba Agocchiari, called Barnaba da Modena (active Modena 1361-1383)
The Madonna and Child
inscribed 'ave.Maria.gratia.piena.doni' (lower centre)
tempera on gold ground panel
12 5/8 x 8¼ in. (32.1 x 21 cm.), arched top, with additions
Provenance
Anton Phillips, Eindhoven, Holland, by 1928, and by descent to the present owner.
Literature
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London, 1968, I, p. 29, II, pl. 274.

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Lot Essay

This characteristic small devotional work by the distinguished late fourteenth century Emilian master was known to Berenson from a photograph, which shows that the background had been overpainted, apparently in black. A comparable signed Madonna is in the Courtauld Institute, Lee Collection.

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