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The Madonna of Humility with adoring angels by 
																	Lorenzo Monaco

Lorenzo Monaco

( Italian, 1370 - 1425 )

The Madonna of Humility with adoring angels

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Materials:

tempera and gold on panel

Measurements:

35.24 in. (89.50 cm.) (height) by 22.13 in. (56.20 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Literature:

O. Sirén, Don Lorenzo Monaco, Strasbourg, 1905, pp. 36-37, pl. V, as Lorenzo Monaco. B. Burroughs, 'Principal Accessions', Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, IV, no. 8, August 1909, pp. 141-142, as Lorenzo Monaco. B. Berenson, The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, New York and London, 1909, p. 154, as Lorenzo Monaco. M. Bernath, New York und Boston, mit 143 Abbildungen, Leipzig, 1912, p. 68, as Lorenzo Monaco. V. Lazareff, 'Una Madonna di Lorenzo Monaco a Mosca', L'Arte, XXVII, 1924, p. 124, as Lorenzo Monaco. R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague, 1927, IX, p. 134, fig. 87, as Lorenzo Monaco. W. Suida, 'Lorenzo Monaco', in Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, XXIII, Leipzig, 1929, p. 392, as Lorenzo Monaco. B. Berenson, Pitture italiane del rinascimento, Milan, 1936, p. 258, as Lorenzo Monaco. G. Pudelko, 'The Stylistic Development of Lorenzo Monaco-I', Burlington Magazine, LXXIII, no. 429, Dec. 1938, p. 238, note 13, as Lorenzo Monaco. H.B. Wehle, A Catalogue of Italian, Spanish and Byzantine Paintings, New York, 1940, pp. 18-19, as Lorenzo Monaco. P. de Montebello, 'Four Prophets by Lorenzo Monaco', Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, XXV, no. 4, Dec. 1966, pp. 164-166, fig. 14, as Lorenzo Monaco. F. Zeri with E.E. Gardner, Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Florentine School, New York, 1971, pp. 67-68, as Workshop of Lorenzo Monaco. B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteeth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, 1972, p. 111, as Lorenzo Monaco. M. Boskovits, Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370-1400, Florence, 1975, pp. 243, under note 200, 350, repeats earlier attributions to Lorenzo Monaco/Lorenzo Monaco and Workshop. M. Laclotte and E. Mognetti, Inventaire des collections publiques françaises: Avignon - Musée du Petit Palais, Peinture Italienne, Paris, 1976, p. 119, under no. 199, repeats Zeri's attribution. M. Laclotte and E. Mognetti, Avignon, musée du Petit Palais: Peinture italienne, Paris, 1987, p. 129, under no. 119, repeats Zeri's attribution. M. Eisenberg, Lorenzo Monaco, Princeton, 1989, pp. 150-151, fig. 141, as Workshop of Lorenzo Monaco. E. Skaug, Punch marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico, Oslo, 1994, I, p. 284, as Lorenzo Monaco. M. Laclotte and E. Moench, Peinture italienne: musée du Petit Palais Avignon, Paris, 2005, p. 125, under no. 129, repeats Zeri's attribution. A. G. de Marchi, Revelations: Discoveries and Rediscoveries in Italian Primitive Art, Rome, 2013, pp. 49-50, fig. 41.

Provenance:

Art market, Dover, England, where purchased by the following. with Victor G. Fischer, Washington, D.C., by 1905, from whom acquired in 1909 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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