Unknown Artist and Arezzo
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Four Saints
1300-1333
Scroll
- Artist , possibly Arezzo: Unknown Artist
- Previously attributed to: Arezzo
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Four Saints
1300-1333
Physical Qualities
Tempera on wood panel, 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (41.9 x 32.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.392
The Madonna, seated on a throne holding the infant Jesus, is accompanied by two pair of saints. The two saints dressed as Benedictine nuns represent Saints Lucilla and Flora. Both were martyred in the 3rd century and are venerated in the Tuscan town of Arezzo in central Italy. One appears to be holding a flower and the other a pyx, a small container used in religious ceremonies. The identities of the saints in the foreground remain unknown. An unusual feature of the work is the manner in which the Christ Child attempts to disengage from his mother who restrains him with a narrow strip of cloth.
The gabled top of the panel, as well as the hinge marks on either side, indicated that it served as a central element in a triptych and was flanked by two other paintings.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; The Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan, 1933-1951; Saidie A. May, The Park Lane, New York City, United States by purchase [1925?], before c. 1923-33; Pazzagli and Nesi, Florence.
Jacobs Wing Rotations 2021
Jacobs Wing Rotations 2022
Jacobs Wing Rotations 2023
Jacobs Wing Rotations 2024
Jacobs Reinstallation 2026
Jacobs Wing Rotations 2025
Donati P.P., ”Per la pittura aretina del Trecento” (III), in “Paragone”, 1970, 5, fig. 3.
Zeri F., “Un problema di Trecento Aretino”, in “Diari di lavoro” 1, 1971.
Bruce Cole, 'Arezzo (?), Early Fourteenth Century: "Madonna and Child with Four Saints,'" in Gertrude Rosenthal ed. "Italian Paintings: XIV - XVIIIth Centuries from the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1981, pp. 17-23, ill. p. 16.
Roberto Bartalini, ‘I Tarlati, il ‘Maestro del Vescovado’ e la pittura aretina
On Painting in Arezzo:
Isabella Droandi, ‘Questioni di pittura aretina del Trecento’, “Annali aretini” 8/9 (2000) 1 (200): 349-93.
Aldo Galli, ed. “Arte in terra d’Arezzo: il Trecento,” Florence: Edifir, 2005.
Anna Maria Maetzke, Arte nell’Aretino: Recuperi e restauri dal 1968 al 1974, ed. Lionello Boccia et al (Florence, 1974), pp. 53-58 on Andrea di Nerio (see p. 25 on Flora and Lucilla).
On Sts Flora and Lucilla in Arezzo:
George Kaftal, Saints in Italian Art, vol 1, Iconography of the Saints in Tuscan Painting (Florence, 1952): 375-6, 641-42.
Giuseppe Palazzini, ‘Lucilla, Flora, Eugenio e compagni,’ in “Bibliotheca sanctorum”, 15 vols., Rome, 1961-2000: 8(1967):275-276.
Isabella Droandi, ‘Questioni di pittura aretina del Trecento’, “Annali aretini” 8/9 (2000) 1 (200): 349-93.
Aldo Galli, ed. “Arte in terra d’Arezzo: il Trecento,” Florence: Edifir, 2005.
Anna Maria Maetzke, Arte nell’Aretino: Recuperi e restauri dal 1968 al 1974, ed. Lionello Boccia et al (Florence, 1974), pp. 53-58 on Andrea di Nerio (see p. 25 on Flora and Lucilla).
On Sts Flora and Lucilla in Arezzo:
George Kaftal, Saints in Italian Art, vol 1, Iconography of the Saints in Tuscan Painting (Florence, 1952): 375-6, 641-42.
Giuseppe Palazzini, ‘Lucilla, Flora, Eugenio e compagni,’ in “Bibliotheca sanctorum”, 15 vols., Rome, 1961-2000: 8(1967):275-276.
Artist , possibly Arezzo
Unknown Artist
2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00
On View at the BMA
