Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Bartholomew, and Four Angels [obverse]; Emblem of St. Bernardine [reverse]
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Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Bartholomew, and Four Angels [obverse]; Emblem of St. Bernardine [reverse]
- Artist
- Sano di Pietro
- Artist Dates
- 1405-1481
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Bartholomew, and Four Angels [obverse]; Emblem of St. Bernardine [reverse]
- Date
- c. 1460s-70s
- Medium
- tempera and gold on panel
- Dimensions
- with mldg.: 63.5 x 45.7; 79.4 x 64.8 cm (25 x 18; 31-1/4 x 25 1/2 in)
- K Number
- K522
- Repository
- El Paso Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.1.8
- Notes
Provenance
(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, [1878-1955], Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 16 September 1938; gift to El Paso Museum of Art in 1961, no.1961.1.8.
Catalogue Entry
Sano di Pietro
Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Bartholomew, and Four Angels [obverse]; Emblem of St. Bernardine [reverse]
K522
El Paso, Tex., EI Paso Museum of Art (1961-6/7), since 1961.(1) Wood. 25 X 18 in. (63.5 X 45.7 cm.); with original molding, 31 1/4 X 25 1/2 in. (79.4 X 64.8 cm.); reverse: 29 1/4 X 21 7/8 in. (75 X 55.6 cm.). Inscribed on the Virgin's halo: AVE GRATIA PLENA Do[minvs tecvm] (from Luke 1:28). On the back of the panel is the emblem of St. Bernardine surrounded by cherubim and seraphim. Excellent condition except for a few losses of paint; cleaned 1960. The composition was repeated many times by Sano (compare, for example, K492, Fig. 392), with slight variations in the pose and costume of the Child, the choice of the attendant saints (here John the Baptist and Bartholomew) and the shape of the panel top (here rounded, in slight concession to Renaissance style). The style is in keeping with signed paintings of Sano's later career, in the 1460's and '70's.(2) Painted both back and front, the panel probably served as a processional standard, and the Bernardine emblem on the reverse recalls the fact that documents of 1467 and 1469 record payments to Sano by the Confraternity of San Bernardino for a standard, along with other work by him carried out for that organization.(3) The Child in K522 holds a goldinch, symbol of Christ's Passion. Provenance: Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1938 – exhibited: Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1952-60.(4)
References
(1) Catalogue by F. R. Shapley, 1961, no. 7, as Sano di Pietro. (2) K522 has been attributed to Sano by B. Berenson, G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, and A. Venturi (in ms. opinions), and to Sano and assistant, by F. M. Perkins (in ms. opinion). (3) E. Gaillard, Sallo di Pietro, 1923, p. 85. (4) Catalogue by W. E. Suida, 1952, p. 16, as Sano di Pietro.