1408
tempera
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
The Death of the Virgin is a 1408 tempera by Gherardo Starnina, a Early Renaissance work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
The painting shows a scene of the Virgin Mary surrounded by people. This work is interesting because it was made during a time when art was becoming more detailed and realistic. The artist used a lot of gold in the painting, which was a common practice back then. You can learn more about this style by looking into the work of artist: Starnina (Gherardo di Jacopo)
D. P. Sellar, London; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 6, 1889, no. 18, for 300 francs (for the price, see annotated copy of this sale catalogue, Topeka Public Library, Topeka, Kansas, and annotated copy of 1914 Sambon Collection sale catalogue, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); Jean Dollfus, Paris; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, pt. 3, April 1–2, 1912, no. 51, p. 19 (ill.), as Florentine School, to Sambon for 20,000 francs (for buyer, see annotated copy of sale catalogue, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and, for price, see annotated…
Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, A Collection of Paintings: Exhibited in the Danish Museum of Fine Art, 1920, no. 4. The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1 to November 1, 1933, no. 90. Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art, The “Gates of Paradise”: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece, April 28-July 15, 2007; Art Institute of Chicago, July 28-October 13, 2007; Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 30, 2007-January 13, 2008 [Chicago Only].
“The Dollfus Sale,” American Art News 10, 26 (1912), p. 10. Bernard Berenson, Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings and Some Art Objects: Italian Paintings, Philadelphia, 1913, vol. 1, p. 10, no. 13. Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de peintures du moyen age et de la renaissance (1280–1580), vol. 5, Paris, 1922, p. 442 (ill.) The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, Chicago, 1925, p. 160, no. 2052. Rose Mary Fischkin, Martin A. Ryerson Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, XIII to XVIII Century, Loaned to The Art Institute of Chicago, unpublished…
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Gherardo Starnina (c. 1360–1413) was an Italian painter from Florence in the Quattrocento era. According to the biographer Giorgio Vasari, Starnina initially trained with Antonio Veneziano, then with Agnolo Gaddi. He is…
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