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MASTER OF THE DOTTO CHAPEL (ACTIVE PADUA CA 1270-1315)

Lot 15
08.12.2022 18:30UTC +00:00
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ID 863078
Lot 15 | MASTER OF THE DOTTO CHAPEL (ACTIVE PADUA CA 1270-1315)
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£ 250 000 – 350 000
MASTER OF THE DOTTO CHAPEL (ACTIVE PADUA C. 1270-1315)

The Last Judgement

tempera on gold ground panel

6 5/8 x 7 1/8 in. (17 x 18.2 cm.)





Provenance

Amadeo collection, Rome, early 1930s.

with Carlo Foresti, Milan, by 1932.

Bruno Canto, Milan, by 1950.

I.D.P. Anstalt Vaduz, Mr. Colombo, 8 January 1977.

Baron Hans-Henirich Thyssen-Bornemisza, and by descent.



Literature

R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, Florence, 1947, III, part V, pp. 253-254, note 10, as 'Venetian School'.

R. Longhi, 'Giudizio sul Duecento', Proporzioni, II, 1948, pp. 16-18 and 45-46, fig. 27, as 'Cimabue'.

J. Pope-Hennessy, 'The Literature of Art', The Burlington Magazine, XC, 1948, p. 360, as 'Cimabue'.

E.B. Garrison, Italian Romanesque Panel Painting, Florence, 1949, pp. 30 and 238, no. 676, as the 'Speaking Christ Master'.

R. Salvini, 'Postilla a Cimabue', Rivista d'Arte, XXVI, 1950, p. 54, as 'Circle of the Master of Saint Martin'.

C. Brandi, Duccio, Florence, 1951, pp. 133-134.

U. Galetti and E. Camesasca, Enciclopedia Pittura Italiana, Milan, 1951, I, p. 672.

Paintings of the Renaissance: Handbook of the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Portland, 1952, p. 10.

W.E. Suida, Handbook of the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, 1953, p. 6, as 'Italian Painter, 13th Century', with a summary of the attributional history of the group.

R. Salvini, 'Cimabue', Enciclopedia Universale dell'Arte, Milan, 1958, p. 472, illustrated, as 'Cimabue'.

C. Seymour, Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1961, under nos. 48-49.

R. Pallucini, La Pittura Veneziana del Trecento, Venice and Rome, 1964, p. 74.

V. Lazarev, 'Saggi sulla pittura veneziana dei secoli XIII-XVI. La maniera greca e il problema de la scuola cretese', I'Arte Veneta, XIX, 1965, pp. 19-20.

A. Boschetto, La Collezione Roberto Longhi, Florence, 1971, under no. 1, Cimabue, The Nativity.

A. Conti, 'Appunti pistoiesi', Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, I, 1971, p. 123, note 1.

E. Sindona, L'opera completa di Cimabue, Milan, 1975, p. 119, no. 66, as 'Cimabue'.

M. Boskovits, Cimabue e i precursori di Giotto, Florence, 1976, under no. 5, note 21.

M. Boskovits, 'Cenni di Pepe (Pepo), detto Cimabue', Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, XXID, Rome, 1979, p. 540.

J.G. Caldwell, New Orleans Museum of Art. Handbook of the Collection, New Orleans, 1980, p. 25, as 'Venetian School, circa 1300'.

M. Scudieri, 'Maggi', La Fondazione Roberto Longhi a Firenze, Milan, 1980, pp. 238-239.

G. Borghero, ed., Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Catalogue Raisonné of the Exhibited Works of Art, Milan, 1981, p. 217, pl. 208b, as 'Venice Master circa 1300'.

J. Pope-Hennessy, 'Some Italian Primitives', Apollo, CVIII, no. 3, 1983, p. 12 and 14, fig. 4.

A. Tartuferi, 'Pittura fiorentina del Duecento', La Pittura in Italia: Le origini, Milan, 1985, pp. 236 and 240, note 42.

A. Tartuferi, La Pittura in Italia: Duecento e Trecento, Milan, 1986, pp. 278 and 282, note 40.

L.C. Marques, La peinture du Duecento en Italie Centrale, Paris, 1987, p. 108 and p. 244, note 174.

M. Boskovits, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Early Italian painting 1290-1470, London, 1990, pp. 131-133, no. 21, illustrated, as 'Master of the Dotto Chapel'.



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Applied technique:Gold ground
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
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