Read our full Open Access policy for images Cf. the two fragments of an altarpieceAltarpiece An image-bearing structure set on the rear part of the altar, abutting the back of the altarblock, or set behind the altar in such a way as to be visually joined with the altar when viewed from a distance. In the years in which Paolo made his appearance on the scene, the activity of our anonymous master is attested to by works in which the forms tend to be more incisive and in which any cultivation of elegance in gesture, or gothicizing animation in calligraphic rhythm, is muted. In his view, this master was a follower of Paolo during the phase of his full maturity. in the flesh tones and mordant gilding on top of the paint to decorate the draperies. Broglio, Paris;[2] purchased jointly 27 July 1950 by (Thos. Rosa DAmico and Tatjana Bonjak, in Il Trecento adriatico: Paolo Veneziano e la pittura tra Oriente e Occidente, ed. 1618. This scheme, which subsequently underwent some changes, especially in Tuscany,[2] [2]On paintings by Tuscan artists in which Christ crowns Mary generally with both hands, cf. Cf. Richard Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting: The Fourteenth Century, sec. the panel seems well suited to integrate the upper right-hand part of the polyptych, now lost, of which the Washington Coronation formed the center. [1] The NGA scientific research department analyzed the gilding of the inscription, that of the background, and that of an area of restoration using x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (see report dated February 9, 1999, in NGA conservation files). but it seems to me difficult to doubt their very close stylistic affinity with the group of paintings just cited. the painted crucifix in the Istituto Ellenico in San Giorgio dei Greci in Venice;[11] [11]Cf. It may also be assumed that the Coronation would have been surmounted by a gable panel representing the Crucifixion[6] [6]Although most Venetian polyptychs of the fourteenth century have come down to us either disassembled or incomplete, two altarpieces painted by Paolo Venezianoin the Bishops Palace of Krk and the (now dismembered) polyptych from the Collegiata of Pirano (on loan to the Museo di Palazzo Venezia in Rome)still retain a gable panel with the Crucifixion. As regards his possible identification with Martino da Venezia, we can only speak of a working hypothesis suggested by the stylistic affinities between the painting here discussed and those of Paolo, son of Martino, and also bearing in mind the undisputed ascendancy that Paolos bottega rapidly succeeded in winning in early fourteenth-century Venetian painting. (Entry fig. See Viktor Nikiti Lazarev, Saggi sulla pittura veneziana dei secoli XIIIXIV: La maniera greca e il problema della scuola cretese, Arte veneta 19 (1965): 2426, 31 n.62; Viktor Nikiti Lazarev, Review of La pittura veneziana del Trecento by R.Pallucchini, The Art Bulletin 48 (1966): 120121. 2023 National Gallery of Art Notices Terms of Use Privacy Policy. In particular, the articulation of forms in the latter, with zones of color almost geometrical in regularity, and their modeling with energetic brushstrokes and sudden flashes of white highlights suggest that they were executed within the last decade of the thirteenth century. (Milan, 1992), 2:537; and by Carla Travi, Il Maestro del trittico di Santa Chiara: Appunti per la pittura veneta di primo Trecento, Arte cristiana 80 (1992): 96 n.57. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 2021, and figs. The feast was formerly celebrated on May 31, at the end of the Marian month, where the present general calendar now commemorates the Feast of the Visitation. In many Coronation scenes painted by Paolo and other Venetian artists a. Enrico Castelnuovo and Bruno Toscano, 6 vols. God the Father and God the Son are represented as identical youthful bearded males while the Holy Spirit appears as a dove that hovers between them. The celebrated altarpiece is exquisitely sumptuous in appearance and marks a historic point in Florentine painting in its success in uniting as one scene the various panels of a polyptych. See also Provenance note 1. As found in polyptych no. Instead, the look of his painting is the product of a pervasive, and enduring, Byzantine influence on all art of the Veneto, the region around Venice. The Coronation of the Virgin or Coronation of Mary is a subject in Christian art, especially popular in Italy in the 13th to 15th centuries, but continuing in popularity until the 18th century and beyond. You may download complete editions of this catalog from the catalogs home page. It is therefore probable that the elderly master shared a workshop around this time with the rising star of fourteenth-century Venetian painting. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed.. A comparison to a painting by Paolo also in the National Gallery of Art, with more dimensional and less static figures, brings into focus the Coronations more schematic approach. Another work for San Pedro was, period, famous for his Coronation of the Virgin., and influential work was his Coronation of the Virgin, signed and dated in February 1413, which was installed on the high altar of Santa Maria degli Angeli. Cf. and the busts of apostles from the iconostasis of Caorle Cathedral. [20] [20]The neo-Hellenistic tendency, attested in the field of monumental painting by the frescoes of Sopoani, is also exemplified by various icons in the collection of the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, or by the miniatures in the Prophet Book of the Biblioteca Vaticana (Vat. 1, Le vetrate dellUmbria (Rome, 1973), 136; Lucio Grossato, ed., Da Giotto al Mantegna (Milan, 1974), no. 1] Reconstruction of a dispersed polyptych by the Master of the Washington Coronation: a. [1] [1]See Philippe Verdier, Le couronnement de la Vierge: Les origines et les premiers dveloppements dun thme iconographique (Montral and Paris, 1980); Marie-Louise Threl, Le triomphe de la vierge-glise: A lorigine du dcor du portail occidental de Notre-Dame de Senlis (Paris, 1984). The early gothic style overlapped chronologically with Romanesque and flourished after the onset of Renaissance art in Italy and elsewhere. Contact with Byzantine art was close in the early 13th century, but after c. 1250 survived principally in the Holy Roman Empire and Italy. In early versions the setting is a Heaven imagined as an earthly court, staffed by saints and angels; in later versions Heaven is more often seen as in the sky, with the figures seated on clouds. Giuseppe Fiocco, Le primizie di maestro Paolo Veneziano, Dedalo 11 (19301931): 887888; National Gallery of Art, European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue (Washington, DC, 1985), 300; Francesca Zava Boccazzi, Paolo Veneziano, in Dizionario della pittura e dei pittori, ed. Who was the Master of the Washington Coronation? A late thirteenth-century date had already been postulated by Lazarev (1965), the first to compare the San Zan Degol cycle with the Madonna in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Washington Coronation, followed by Boskovits (1989), who included in the masters oeuvre, in addition to the aforesaid works, the panels in Caorle (for which see also note 22 below). was faithfully followed by Venetian painters throughout the fourteenth century and beyond. Its ships carried, and its merchants sold, most of the luxury goods desired by the West: silks, spices, ivory, and exotic pigments. 73. Mauro Lucco, 2 vols. (Milan, 1992), 2:544; Mojmir Svatopluk Frinta, Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting (Prague, 1998), 127, 128; Fulvio Zuliani, in Da Giotto al tardogotico: Dipinti dei Musei Civici di Padova del Trecento e della prima met del Quattrocento, ed. 54 in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. It has lost 1,779 tanks since February 2022, Oryx reported. J0332 and identify the Broglio family member from whom it was purchased. An old photograph, taken in the late nineteenth century [fig. From the High Renaissance onwards, the subject is often combined with an Assumption as a group of Apostles is on the earthly space below the heavenly scene, sometimes with Mary's empty tomb. F Tschochner, Krone in Marienlexikon Eos St. Ottilien 1988, p.685, "The Coronation of the Virgin Mary", Augusta State University, Veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coronation_of_the_Virgin&oldid=1110319647, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2022, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Mary crowned in Heaven by Jesus or jointly with God the Father, surrounded by Cherubim and/or Saints, This page was last edited on 14 September 2022, at 20:14. The sale catalog linked this work with the circle of the painter of the Washington Coronation, and Carla Travi later inserted it in the catalog of the Master of Caorle (alternative name of the Master of the Washington Coronation). The term gothic is applied to western European painting of the 13th century to the early 15th century. The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the fifth of the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary (following the Assumption, the fourth Glorious Mystery) and therefore the idea that the Virgin Mother of God was physically crowned as Queen of Heaven after her Assumption is a traditional Catholic belief echoed in the Rosary. In the picture there are a lot of objects, there are two musicians with a violin and a harp. Muraro himself then tried to reconstruct the production of the Master of the Washington Coronation, assigning him not only the panels in Padua and Belgrade but also the Madonna no. Other objects include books, most likely Bibles, a cross, a crown, a huge cathedral like stage that Mary and Jesus sit upon, and possibly a sword. These works are preceded in date by the vigorous language of some other paintings in which the artist strives to create strong effects of plastic relief and to present his figures in illusionistically convincing architectural settings. Peter Kidson, Grove Art Oxford University Press mannerthan that of the Master of the Washington Coronation. Mauro Lucco, 2 vols. They both sit on an olive-green cushion on the gold throne. According to Alberton Vinco da Sesso, Naya had also amassed a collection of ancient statuary, and it cannot be excluded that the Gallerys painting actually came from the photographers collection. 1923, and in more recent years Alessandro Marchi, in Il Trecento adriatico: Paolo Veneziano e la pittura tra Oriente e Occidente, ed. ), in Fra Ludovico da Pietralunga and Pietro Scarpellini, Descrizione della Basilica di S. Francesco e di altri Santuari di Assisi (Treviso, 1982), 344; Robert Gibbs, Locchio di Tomaso: Sulla formazione di Tomaso da Modena (Treviso, 1981), 37; Robert Gibbs, A Fresco by Marco or Paolo Veneziano in Treviso, Studi trevisani 1 (1984): 2729, 30 n.7; Robert Gibbs, Tomaso da Modena: Painting in Emilia and the March of Treviso, 13401380 (Cambridge, 1989), 29; Robert Gibbs, Master of the Washington Coronation, in The Dictionary of Art, ed. [3] The crown has several meanings in secular depictions. Viktorija Markova, Italija: Sobranie ivopisi, vol. Paolo Golinelli and Caterina Gemma Brenzoni (Verona, 2004), 205206; Mikls Boskovits, Paolo Veneziano: Riflessioni sul percorso, 1, Arte cristiana 97 (2009): 83; Grgo Gamulin, Alcune proposte per Maestro Paolo, Emporium 139 (1964): 151153. The work is difficult to date but presumably originated in years not far removed from the execution of the painting discussed here. The Coronation Chair, which dates back to the year 1300, will be cleaned and stabilized by Westminster Abbey's paintings conservator in preparation for the May 6 coronation The motif of the star-studded celestial sphere is also present in the antependium of Krk and the fresco of Gemona cited in the previous note. The panel, originally part of a much larger assemblage (see Reconstruction), has been attributed in the past to Paolo Veneziano (Venetian, active 1333 - 1358), Venices most important artist in the 14th century. In an early mosaic in Ravenna, Italy, virgins present a crown to the child and Mary as a gesture of humility. 4th St and Constitution Ave NW Antonio Dal Zotto [18411918], Venice. Tempera paintings were made by binding different pigments together with organic substances (the medium) on a wooden panel. Lucio Grossato, ed., Da Giotto al Mantegna (Milan, 1974), no. [che] sembra decantarsi in un classicismo ellenistico, mediante una costruzione intensamente plastica della forma. Coronation of the Virgin. 1592. Some of the earliest representations were carved above cathedral doorways in Franceand certain elements in the Gallery's paintingits elaborate halos, for exampleshare in the decorative elegance of Gothic art. I str. ca. (Florence, 2001), 531539. The fact remains that the artistic profile of the Master of the Washington Coronation remains very uncertain. Mauro Lucco, 2 vols. Measuring 53 73 cm, it is a fragment of the lower part of a panel depicting the Crucifixion. Mary is sometimes shown, in both Eastern and Western Christian art, being crowned by one or two angels, but this is considered a different subject. [fig. The subject also drew from the idea of the Virgin as the "throne of Solomon", that is the throne on which a Christ-child sits in a Madonna and Child. Mauro Lucco, 2 vols. The altarpiece was never officially prescribed by the Church, but it did perform a prescribed function alternatively carried out by a simple inscription on the altarblock: to declare to which saint or mystery the altar was dedicated. (Milan, 1992), 2:534; Mauro Lucco, Marco di Martino da Venezia (Marco Veneziano), in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, ed. Important commissions followed, including the Coronation of the Virgin (1502) for the altar of the Oddi family chapel in the Church of San Francesco al Prato in Perugia. (Milan, 1992), 1:29, 32, 34; Filippo Pedrocco, Paolo Veneziano (Milan and Venice, 2003), 213; Mikls Boskovits, Paolo Veneziano: Riflessioni sul percorso, 1, Arte cristiana 97 (2009): 88 n.21. Perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space. One shoe peeks out from under Marys hem, and Jesuss feet are bare. I think it probable, on grounds of style and measurements, that the panel of the prophets Jeremiah and Daniel and the busts of two Evangelists [fig. Omissions? The Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feast every August 22, where it replaced the former octave of the Assumption of Mary in 1969, a move made by Pope Paul VI. Now much damaged, it was rightly restored to the young. . Fibonacci Analysis of The Coronation of the Virgin (Louvre) by Fra Angelico - Kindle edition by Gulcugil, Ates. . and the so-called Madonna delle stelle in the church of Santi Maria e Donato in Murano. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. More likely, however, its painter belonged to the previousgenerationhe may even have been Paolos father, Martino da Venezia. Enter or exit at 4th Street. Note: Exhibition history, provenance, and bibliography are subject to change as new information becomes available. The Last Judgment (144045) and The Coronation of the Virgin (c. 143032), for example, the human figures receding toward the rear themselves create a feeling of space similar to that in the paintings of Angelicos great Florentine contemporary Masaccio. Her mantle and Jesuss robe are painted with gold lines to indicate folds. It is also sometimes called a retable, following the medieval term retrotabulum. painted surface (score lines to score lines): 99.3 77.4 cm (39 1/8 30 1/2 in. The woman looks at us while holding both hands up to gesture toward Jesus. Italian Paintings 13th and 14th Centuries, Read our full Open Access policy for images, Paolo Veneziano (Venetian, active 1333 - 1358). In 1442 Lippi had been made rector of the church of San Quirico at Legnaia. In the earliest version of this iconography in Tuscan painting, the panel by Guido da Siena (c.12701275) now in the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery in London, Jesus places the crown on his mothers head with his right hand only. Against a gold background, a man places a crown onto a womans head as they sit side-by-side on a wide throne surrounded by winged angels in this vertical painting. Another The Coronation of the Virgin, which is dated 1324, is also attributed to Paolo. Updates? But the alternative proposal by Michelangelo Muraro (1965, 1969), who placed the Washington panel at the center of his reconstruction of the oeuvre of an artist he considered the stylistic precursor and perhaps even the elder brother of Paolo, has met with increasing consent since the latter decades of the twentieth century. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 2224, figs. 7212 in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the above-mentioned fragment with figures of saints and prophets formerly in the Cini collection in Venice, and the painted crucifix now in the church of San Giorgio dei Greci in Venice. 65; Michelangelo Muraro, Paolo da Venezia (Milan, 1969), 151152; Mauro Lucco, Maestro di Caorle, in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, ed. also notes 9 and 19 above. Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) Italian. 141) in the National Museum in Belgrade, classifying them as works of a predecessor, perhaps even the master, of Paolo Veneziano. Jane Turner, 34 vols. Carla Travi, Il Maestro del trittico di Santa Chiara: Appunti per la pittura veneta di primo Trecento,, See Andrea De Marchi, La prima decorazione della chiesa francescana, in, Published by Kruno Prijatelk, Nota su una Crocifissione vicina a Paolo Veneziano a Split (Spalato),. Edward B. Garrison, Italian Romanesque Panel Painting: An Illustrated Index (Florence, 1949), 237; Giordano Viroli, ed., La Pinacoteca Civica di Forl (Forl, 1980), 67; Giovanni Valagussa, Prima di Giotto, in Il Trecento riminese: Maestri e botteghe tra Romagna e Marche, ed. [12] [12]Cf. Francesca Flores dArcais and Giovanni Gentili (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, 2002), 142; Carla Travi, Il Maestro del trittico di Santa Chiara: Appunti per la pittura veneta di primo Trecento, Arte cristiana 80 (1992): 96 n.57; Carla Travi, Su una recente storia della pittura del Veneto nel Trecento, Arte cristiana 82 (1994): 71; Clara Santini, Unantologia pittorica del primo Trecento nella chiesa di San Francesco a Udine, Arte cristiana 82 (1994): 188; Clara Santini, Un episodio della pittura veneziana di primo Trecento: Il Maestro dellIncoronazione della Vergine di Washington, Il Santo 37 (1997): 123145; Italo Furlan, in Il Trecento adriatico: Paolo Veneziano e la pittura tra Oriente e Occidente, ed. Angels and cherubs float among billowing clouds. There are three examples extant on Devon rood screen dados: at East Portlemouth, Holne, and Torbryan. . It measures nearly 70 x 52 inches and the original work is in Museo del Prado. The painted surface is generally in fair condition. This image is in the public domain. [5] [5]Cf. The Coronation of the Virgin. Cf. Usually ascribed to Paolo Veneziano,[13] [13]On the panel now at Vodnjan, Blessed Leone Bembo with a Donor, Angels, and Four Stories of His Life, cf. The Coronation of the Virgin is a common subject in art but the contract for this work specifies the unusual representation of the Father and Son of the Holy Trinity as identical figures (very rare in the 15th century, though there are other examples ), but allows Quarton to represent the Virgin as he chooses. Grove Art Oxford University Press groundGround The layer or layers used to prepare the support to hold the paint., apparently without the help of a preparatory underdrawingUnderdrawing A drawing executed on a ground before paint is applied.. 7th St and Constitution Ave NW The half moon has a shell design at the center and is painted with gold stars against a cobalt-blue background along the top, curving edge. Paolo died between 1358 and 1362, so he probably would not have been all that young around 1315. . 1455 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 956. Color reproductions in the reconstruction indicate panels in the National Gallery of Art collection. The artist applied the paint on a moderately thick gessoGesso A mixture of finely ground plaster and glue applied to wood panels to create a smooth painting surface. The Coronation of the Virgin. Coronations are a case of two paintings, both altarpieces, of nearly identical size (the Sant'Ambrogio Coronation is 200 X 287 cm., and the San Bernardo panels now measure 172 X 254 cm. Image: bpk, Berlin/Pushkin Museum, Moscow/Roman Beniaminson/Art Resource, NY in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow[21] [21]Published by Viktor Nikiti Lazarev, Saggi sulla pittura veneziana dei secoli XIIIXIV: La maniera greca e il problema della scuola cretese, Arte veneta 19 (1965): 2325, as the work of an anonymous Venetian master dating to c.13101315, it was restored to the Master of the Washington Coronation by Michelangelo Muraro, Paolo da Venezia (Milan, 1969), 125. IV; Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 48 and fig 156. [18] [18]Published as a work of the Veneto-Byzantine school of the 14th century by Ettore Merkel, Isole del nord della Laguna, Quaderni della Soprintendenza ai beni artistici e storici di Venezia 14 (1986): 159160, the panel was reassigned to the Master of Caorle by the present writer. Christies, Rome, May 20, 1974, lot. Two Apostles and the Prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel (?) Carla Travi, Il Maestro del trittico di Santa Chiara: Appunti per la pittura veneta di primo Trecento, Arte cristiana 80 (1992): 96 n.57. In general the art of this period, often paid for by royalty and the nobility, increasingly regarded the heavenly court as a mirror of earthly ones. Iconology, which is based on the results of iconography, is the more wide-ranging and comprehensive. But there are good grounds for assuming that it would have been flanked by a series of stories of Christ or stories of the Virgin, arranged in two superimposed tiers, rather than by standing figures of saints, as found, for instance, in polyptychsPolyptych Type of object with several panels, usually an altarpiece, although it may also fulfil other functions. In works such as the panel now in Washington (dated 1324) he aspires to a figural style characterized by gothicizing elegance of movement and fluency in linear rhythms [fig. 2]  [fig. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. The eight angels are spaced over the throne, and are smaller in scale, about half the size of Mary and Jesus. Lazarev (1965) was the first to reunite the Washington Coronation with the Madonna no. The Holy Ghost, appears above them in the form of a dove, occupying the upper vertex of a rhombus formed by the four figures. More recently, Mauro Lucco (1992) included the painting in the catalog of the Master of Caorle, the conventional name for an artist whose outlines perfectly coincide, in my view, with those of the Master of the Washington Coronation. 2] Master of the Washington Coronation, Two Apostles and the Prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel (? Each looks across toward the others, and they wear robes of rose pink, lapis blue, or forest green. Coronation of the Virgin, 1429-1447 Tempera on wood 78 3/4 113 in | 200 287 cm Galleria degli Uffizi Florence Get notifications for similar works Create Alert Want to sell a work by this artist? More correctly, Mauro Lucco (1992) connected the panels in Caorle with some works in the catalog of the Master of the Washington Coronation, while Travi (1994) combined under the conventional name of the Master of Caorle the majority of the works attributable to the master of the panel in Washington. In 1889 Dal Zotto married Ida Lessjak, widow of the photographer Carlo Naya, and after her death in 1893 Dal Zotto became owner of Nayas successful firm specializing in views of Venice and reproductions of works of art. The historic Coronation Chair on which Henry VIII and other monarchs of England and later Britain have been crowned for some 700 years is getting a makeover ahead of this year's ceremony for King Charles, London's Westminster Abbey said. The sale catalog linked this work with the circle of the painter of the Washington Coronation, and Carla Travi later inserted it in the catalog of the Master of Caorle (alternative name of the Master of the Washington Coronation). Another panel that retains its upper Crucifixion is the small altarpiece in the Galleria Nazionale in Parma, on which see Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed.. [fig. Maddalena was named by the sixteenth-century art biographer Vasari as the patron of Raphael's Coronation of the Virgin, painted for the Oddi Chapel in S. Francesco al Prato, Perugia, in about 1503-4, and now in the Vatican Pinacoteca. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), figs. See Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 29, 250, fig. Edward B. Garrison, Published as a work of the Veneto-Byzantine school of the 14th century by Ettore Merkel, Isole del nord della Laguna,, The neo-Hellenistic tendency, attested in the field of monumental painting by the frescoes of Sopoani, is also exemplified by various icons in the collection of the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, or by the miniatures in the. Mikls Boskovits, Ada Labriola, and Martina Ingendaay Rodio, new ed. The episode first appears in medieval sources, but it was not until the thirteenth century that the scene in which Christ places the crown on his mothers head is explicitly illustrated in monumental painting and sculpture. For a review of the fortuna critica, cf. The main lines of the draperies were incised into the gesso, but they do not correspond to the gilded highlights of the mantles of Christ and of the Virgin in the painting. . The Coronation of the Virgin as Queen of Heaven is not described in the Bible.In narrative sequences it is usually placed after her Assumption.. In The Coronation of the Virgin (1635-36) the solemnity and dignity of the holy persons are set off by their voluminous colourful robes in a composition of exceptional splendour specially fitting for a painting of the Queen of Heaven made to adorn the oratory of the Read More Reconstruction of a dispersed polyptych by the Master of the Washington Coronation: a. See Francesca Flores dArcais, Venezia, in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, ed. The scriptural basis is found in the Song of Songs (4.8), Psalms (45.1112) and Revelation (12.17). The alternation of full-length prophets and half-figure apostles would seem to exclude the alleged provenance of the former Cini collection panel either from a predella or from an iconostasis. The subject became common as part of a general increase in devotion to Mary in the Early Gothic period, and is one of the commonest subjects in surviving 14th-century Italian panel paintings, mostly made to go on a side-altar in a church. the altarpieces of San Pantalon at Venice, that of the stories of Saint Lucy at Krk (Croatia), and polyptych no. He holds a long staff in his other hand, which rests in his lap. The Agnew stockbooks record the painting as no. Very similar to the composition of the present panel is the embroidered antependium from the cathedral of Krk (Veglia) in Croatia, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (cf. Fra Angelica created this tempera with an egg-yolk medium. The two fragments in Forl, left in anonymity by earlier art historians such as Edward B. Garrison (1949) and Giordano Viroli (1980), were attributed to the Master of Caorle by Giovanni Valagussa (1995). 21 of the Gallerie dellAccademia in Venice and in the fragmentary panel of the Museo di Palazzo Venezia in Rome. In earlier versions, Mary and Christ often sit side-by-side on a wide throne, and typically are only accompanied by angels in smaller altarpieces, although these were often in polyptych form, and had saints on side-panels, now often separated. the panel provides further evidence of the essential stylistic continuity between the manner of Paolo and that of the older master. 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