LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera and gold on panel, unframed

Measurements:

8.62 in. (21.90 cm.) (height) by 15.00 in. (38.10 cm.) (width)

Literature:

R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague, III, 1924, p. 585. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London 1963, p. 163, as Orcagna. A.R. Calderoni Masetti, 'Spinello Aretino giovane', Raccolta pisana di saggi e studi, XXXV, Florence, 1973, p. 12, fig. 14. M. Boskovits, Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del rinascimento: 1370-1400, Florence, 1975, p. 436, fig. 520. G. Freuler in Master Paintings, 1400-1850, exhibition catalogue, Colnaghi's, London, Winter 1991-1992, pp. 10-11, fig. 1. Master Paintings, 1400-1850, exhibition catalogue, Colnaghi's, London, 1993, p. 71. Arte Sacra Antica, exhibition catalogue, Agnew's, London, 1994. A. González-Palacios in Sumptuosa tabula picta: pittori a Lucca tra gotico e Rinascimento, exhibition catalogue, Lucca, 1998, p. 18. C. Terzaghi, 'Sei tavole toscane del Quattrocento' in 'Ma l'arte è un viaggio..', exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2001, p. 86. S. Weppelmann, Spinello Aretino und die toskanische Malerei des 14. Jahrhunderts, Florence, 2003, pp. 262, 264-265, no. 63b. S. Weppelmann in Lorenzo Monaco: a bridge from Giotto's heritage to the Renaissance, exhibition catalogue, Florence, 2006, pp. 142-143, fig. 2, under cat. 14. S. Weppelmann in A history of taste: collecting French & Italian old master painting for America, exhibition catalogue, Robilant & Voena at Christophe Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, 2010, p. 22, fig. 2. S. Weppelmann, Spinello Aretino e la pittura del trecento in Toscana, Florence, 2011, pp. 273-275, no. 63b.

Provenance:

with L.M. Banti, Via delle Ruote, Florence, by 1920. Cinelli collection, Palazzo Antellesi, Florence, by 1963. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 December 1972, lot 74, as 'Luca Spinello'.