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Virgin and Child Enthroned

Artist Master of the Cappella Medici Polyptych Italian, active 1375–1400

Datecirca 1325–1350

MediumTempera on panel

Dimensions63 x 32 3/4 in. (160 x 83.2 cm)
Frame: 71 1/4 x 41 x 3 1/2in. (181 x 104.1 x 8.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Barbara Babcock Millhouse

Object numberG.59.26.1

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Provenance[supposedly] Marchese Carlo Spinola [date?]; with Giuseppe Volterra, Florence; with Acquavella Galleries, New York; given by Mrs. Barbara Babcock Millhouse to NCMA, 1959.Published ReferencesJose Pijoan, Summa Artes 18, 152, illus.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," The Art Quarterly 26, no. 1 (Spring 1963), 81, illus. 88.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, no. 1 (Fall 1963), listed 13 (as follower of Giotto), illus. (b-w) 2.

The North Carolina Churchman 53, no. 10 (November-December 1963), illus. cover.

L. Bellosi, Buffalmacco e il Trionfo della Morte (Turin [Florence?], 1974), 52, 61, no. 72 or 72, no. 96.

M. Boskovits, "Appunti su un libro recente," Antichità viva 10 (1971), 3-15.

Andrew Ladis, "An Early Trecento Madonna Uncovered," Antichita viva 2, no. 1 (1983), 5-10, illus. 5, fig. no. 1, and 6, figs. 3, 4, 5.

La Pittura in Italia. Il Duecento e il Trecento 2 (1986), 616, illus.

Offner, Corpus 3, no. 2 (Florence, 1987), 356.

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 642, illus. (b-w) 643.
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