Predella panel of the high altarpiece for the Church of San Donato, Scopeto: St. Donatus
Artist
Filippino Lippi
Italian, b. circa 1457, Prato; d. 1504, Florence
Datecirca 1496
MediumTempera on panel
Dimensions11 7/8 x 8 1/4in. (30.2 x 21 cm)
Frame: 16 3/4 x 13 5/8 x 2in. (42.5 x 34.6 x 5.1 cm)
Frame: 16 3/4 x 13 5/8 x 2in. (42.5 x 34.6 x 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Object numberGL.60.17.27
On View
On viewPublished ReferencesPreliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1941), cat. no. 298.
Alfred Scharf, Filippino Lippi (Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1950), 22, 54, illus.
Luciano Berti and U. Baldini, Filippino Lippi (Florence, 19[??]), nos. [48-49?].
The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 64, illus. (b-w) 65, fig. A.
Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968), 136-37, illus. fig [?].
Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection; Italian Schools XIII - XV Century, Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968), 136-37, illus. figs. 373-4.
Filippino Lippi e Pietro Perugino - La Deposizione della Santissima Annunziata e il suo restauro, Franca Faletti and Jonathan Katz Nelson, eds. (Livorno: Sillabe, 2004), 129, illus. (b-w) 130, fig. 12.
Patrizia Zambrano and Jonathan Katz Nelson, Filippino Lippi (Milan: Electa, 2004), cat. no. 52C, discussed 594-95, illus. (b-w) 595, fig. 52C, and 473, fig. 404.
Perri Lee Roberts, Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections: The South, Vol. 3 (Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2009), discussed 634, illus. (b-w) 635.
Lyle Humphrey, "Saul Among the Prophets: W.R. Valentiner, Robert L. Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Collection at the NCMA," Lisandra Estevez, ed., Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 45.
Eike D. Schmidt, Marco Ciatti, Cecilia Frosini, eds., Il Cosmo Magico di Leonardo da Vinci: l'Adorazione dei Magi Restaurata, (Florence, Italy: Giunti Editore, 2017), illus. (color)Exhibition HistoryWashington, DC, The National Gallery of Art, 1941-51, cat. no. 289.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Gift to North Carolina: Italian Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection," February 5-April 24, handout no. 10.
Venice, Gallerie degli Uffizi, “Leonardo da Vinci’s Magic Cosmos: The Restored Adoration of the Magi,” March 28–September 24, 2017, cat. no. 3A, illus. (color).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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