LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on panel, gold ground

Measurements:

8.27 in. (21.00 cm.) (height) by 12.44 in. (31.60 cm.) (width)

Literature:

. Memorie della sagrestia di S. Procolo , c. 45, in. Conventi Soppressi , 78, vol. 352, March 1740, Archivio di Stato, Florence, in Offner 1956, sect. III, vol. VI, p. 159 (as Giotto);. G. Richa, Notizie istoriche delle chiese Fiorentine , vol. I, Florence 1754, pp. 239 and 242-43 (as Ambrogio Lorenzetti); . V. Follini and M. Rastrelli, Firenze Antica e Moderna Illustrata , vol. V, Florence 1794, p. 141 (as Ambrogio Lorenzetti); . G. de Nicola, 'Il soggiorno fiorentino di Ambrogio Lorenzetti', in Bollettino d'Arte del Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione , vol. I, series II, 1922, p. 52 (as Ambrogio Lorenzetti); . R. Offner, A critical and historical corpus of Florentine painting. The fourteenth century , sect. III, vol. I, New York 1931, p. 114, reproduced Add.Plate I (as 'Remoter following of the St. Cecilia Master'); . R. Longhi, 'Giudizio sul Duecento' e Ricerche sul Trecento nell'Italia Centrale, 1939-70 , in Edizione delle Opere complete di Roberto Longhi , vol. 7, Florence 1974, pp. 50-51, cat. no. 127 (as Pacino di Bonaguida, wrongly identifying the scenes as from the life of Saint Zenobius); . W. and E. Paatz, Die Kirchen von Florenz , vol. IV, Frankfurt-am-Main 1952, pp. 692-93 (as Ambrogio Lorenzetti); . G. Kaftal, Saints in Italian Art. Iconography of the saints in Tuscan painting , Florence 1952 (1986 ed.), p. 860, cat. no. 256(AI), reproduced p. 859, fig. 971 (as Pacino di Bonaguida); . R. Offner, A critical and historical corpus of Florentine painting. The fourteenth century , sect. III, vol. VI, New York 1956, pp. 153-60, reproduced plate XLIV (as Pacino di Bonaguida and workshop).

Provenance:

Bertolaso, Genoa, 1927;. With Julius Böhler, Munich, by January 1929; . From whom acquired by Georg Hartmann (1870-1954), Frankfurt-am-Main, 24 March 1938 (as the St. Cecilia Master); . Thence by inheritance to his wife, Frau Hanny Finsterlin, Frankfurt-am-Main; . Thence by descent. .