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Triptych of the Virgin and Child with Scenes from the Life of Christ

Venetian

1320

tempera

panel

From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago

Byzantine icon painting Medieval Religious

Dominant colour

About this work

This painting shows the Virgin and Child with scenes from Christ's life. It's a triptych, meaning it has three panels. The details in the panels tell us about the artist's skill and the time it was made, around 1320, which is interesting because it shows how artists worked back then, often using traditional techniques to tell stories. You can learn more about this style by looking into the technique: tempera.

The story of this work

Provenance

Julius Böhler, Munich; sold by Böhler to Franz Haniel in 1918 [according to letter of May 22, 2000 from Joachim Temme of Herbert M. Ritter, Kunsthandel, Munich, to Larry Feinberg in curatorial file.]; Franz Haniel, Munich (died 1965); hiers of Franz Haniel; offered for sale through his brother-in-law, Herbert M. Ritter, Munich, at Christie's, London, July 1, 1966, no. 49 (ill.). [according to letter from Joachim Temme of Herbert M. Ritter, cited above]; bought in and offered for sale again at Christie's, London, November 24, 1967, no. 72 (ill.); sold probably to Julius Weitzner, London.…

Exhibition history

Chicago, AIC, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300-1900, October 17 - December 14, 1986, no. 1.

Publication history

August L. Mayer, “Die Sammlung F.H. in München,” Pantheon 5 (1930): 263, ill. Edward B. Garrison. Italian Romanesque Panel Painting, Florence, 1949, no. 302, ill. Dorothy C. Shorr. The Christ Child in Devotional Images in Italy during the XIV Century, New York, 1954, p. 48, ill. Rodolfo Pallucchini. La Pittura Veneziana del Trecento, Venice, 1964, pp. 70-71, fig. 238. Art Prices Current, vol. 43 (August - July 1967): p. A-182, #5139. Apollo 83, no. 52 (1966): p. xx, ill,. Burlington Magazine 58 (1966): p. xxxii, ill, International Art Market 6, no. 7-8 (1966), p.,144,. AIC Annual Report…

Read the full account in the museum source.