Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Madonna and Child

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title: 
Madonna and Child
Image View: 
Detail of faces of Mary and the Christ Child
Creator: 
attributed to Bartolo di Fredi (Italian painter, active by 1353, died 1410)
Location: 
repository: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (Rome, Lazio, Italy) 1546 (F.N. 15161)
Location Note: 
Palazzo Barberini, Via delle Quattro Fontane, 13
GPS: 
+41.903611+12.490278
Date: 
ca. 1353-1410 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Gothic (Medieval)
Work Type 1: 
panel painting
Classification: 
painting
Material: 
tempera paint and gold gilding on wood panel
Technique: 
gilding (technique); painting and painting techniques
Measurements: 
87.7 cm (height) x 67.7 cm (width)
Description: 
Variant name for the artist is Bartolo di Fredi Cini; he was Sienese and worked mainly in Siena, Montalcino, and San Gimignano. The panel comes from Viterbo, church of Santa Maria Nuova. It was previously attributed to Lippo Memmi. (Source: Gallery Palazzo Barberini online collection [website]; http://galleriabarberini.beniculturali.it/)
Collection: 
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier: 
7A1-FRED-PB-MC-A02
Rights: 
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