id: 124076
accession number: 1944.79
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Coronation of the Virgin, 1420s. Fra Angelico (Italian, 1400–1455). Tempera and gold on wood panel; framed: 45.5 x 51.5 x 8.5 cm (17 15/16 x 20 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.); unframed: 27 x 37.2 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.79
title: Coronation of the Virgin
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creation date: 1420s
creation date earliest: 1420
creation date latest: 1429
current location: 117B Italian Renaissance
creditline: The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
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culture: Italy, Florence, 15th century
technique: tempera and gold on wood panel
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Medieval Art
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Fra Angelico (Italian, 1400–1455) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 45.5 x 51.5 x 8.5 cm (17 15/16 x 20 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 27 x 37.2 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Exhibition of the Month: The Rise of the Landscape in Art
opening date: 1948-06-09T04:00:00
Exhibition of the Month: The Rise of the Landscape in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9-September 26, 1948).
title: Gothic Art 1360-1440
opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00
Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963).
title: Fra Angelico
opening date: 2005-10-24T00:00:00
Fra Angelico. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 24, 2005-January 30, 2006).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1936).', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi (1878-1955), Rome, Italy
date: -1924
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Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss (1865–1944), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1924-1944
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1944-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Milliken, William Mathewson. The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art. [New York]: [The Art news], 1936.
page number: cat. no. 112
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Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
page number: Reproduced: p. [11], Plate I, cat. no. 1; Mentioned: p. 21, cat. no. 1
url: https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n25
Francis, Henry S. “Paintings in the Prentiss Bequest.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 6 (1944)
page number: p. 87
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141132
Angelico, and John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy. Fra Angelico. New York: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Garden City Books, 1952.
page number: p. 197
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“Gothic Art 1360-1440.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963).
page number: cat. no. 79
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960
Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. .
page number: cat no. 14, p. 41-42
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Bonsanti, Giorgio, and Angelico. Beato Angelico: catalogo completo. Firenze: Octavo, 1998.
page number: pp. 115-116, cat. no. 7
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Kanter, Laurence B., Angelico, Pia Palladino, and Magnolia Scudieri. Fra Angelico. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.
page number: p. 9, no. 15
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Angelico, Magnolia Scudieri, and Sara Giacomelli. Fra Giovanni Angelico: pittore miniatore o miniatore pittore? Firenze: Giunti, 2007.
page number: p. 45, fig. 37
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Schumacher, Andreas, et. al. Florentiner Malerei: Alte Pinakothek : die Gemälde des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. [München]: Alte Pinakothek; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017.
page number: Reproduced: p. 230, Abb. 11.2
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Quené, Saskia C., and Angelico. Goldgrund und Perspektive: Fra Angelico im Glanz des Quattrocento. Berlin : Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2022.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 70-71, figs. 7 & 8
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