id: 129218 accession number: 1952.110 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.110 updated: 2023-08-25 11:18:34.658000 Madonna and Child, c. 1350. Attributed to Lippo Memmi (Italian). Tempera and gold on poplar panel; framed: 71.3 x 43.8 x 5.7 cm (28 1/16 x 17 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.); unframed: 71.3 x 44 cm (28 1/16 x 17 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1952.110 title: Madonna and Child title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1350 creation date earliest: 1345 creation date latest: 1355 current location: 110A Italian Gothic creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Siena, 14th century technique: tempera and gold on poplar panel department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Medieval Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Lippo Memmi (Italian) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 71.3 x 43.8 x 5.7 cm (28 1/16 x 17 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.); Unframed: 71.3 x 44 cm (28 1/16 x 17 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church opening date: 2003-09-07T00:00:00 Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7, 2003-September 26, 2004). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Meisterwerke Italienischer Renaissance, Secession Building, Vienna, Austria (1924-5). * Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900, Royal Academy, Burlington House (January-March, 1930). --- PROVENANCE Richard von Kaufman (1850–1908), Berlin, Germany date: footnotes: citations: (Sale: Paul Cassirer und Hugo Helbing, Berlin, Germany, December 4-5, 1917) date: December 4-5, 1917 footnotes: citations: August Lederer (1857–1936), Vienna, Austria to Erich Lederer date: 1924 footnotes: citations: Erich Lederer, Geneva, Switzerland, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1952 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1952- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: On the eve of the Battle of Montaperti in 1260, the Tuscan town of Siena was dedicated to the Virgin. Siena’s miraculous victory the following day confirmed its status as the "City of the Virgin" and inspired fervent devotion among its citizens. Marian imagery flourished, and many altarpieces comprising images of the Madonna and Child flanked by saints were made for Sienese churches. This panel once formed part of such an altarpiece. Here, the infant Christ clings to his mother’s clothing. He also holds a scroll that proclaims his special destiny. Lippo Memmi was the brother-in-law of Simone Martini, an extremely influential Sienese painter. The two artists worked closely together, and this Madonna and Child reflects Simone’s aristocratic and elegant style. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS page number: url: Harck, F. "Quadri di Maestri Italiani in Possesso di Privati a Berlino," Archivo Storico dell'arte, Vol. II (1889) page number: p. 206 url: Venturi, Adolfo. Storia dell'arte italiana. Milano: U. Hoepli, 1901. page number: Vol. V, p. 655, fig. 532 url: Berenson, Bernard. The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. page number: p. 148 url: Crowe, J. A., G. B. Cavalcaselle, R. Langton Douglas, S. Arthur Strong, G. de Nicola, and Tancred Borenius. A History of Painting in Italy. London: J. Murray, 1908. page number: Vol. III, pp. 79-80, n. 1 url: Reinach, Salomon. Répertoire de peintures du Moyen âge et de la Renaissance (1280-1580). Paris: E. Leroux, 1910. page number: Vol. III, p. 378, fig. 1 url: Paul Cassirer und Hugo Helbing (Firm). Die Sammlung Richard von Kaufmann, Berlin; III. Band. 1917. page number: vol. I, no. 7, p. 22 url: Marle, Raimond van. Simone Martini et les peintres de son école. Strasbourg: J.H.E. Heitz, 1920. page number: p. 190 url: Meisterwerke italienischer renaissance aus Privatbesitz. Wien: Sezession, 1924. page number: Cat. No. 71 url: Marle, Raimond van, and Charlotte van Marle. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1923. page number: p. 274, n. 3 url: Gielly, L. Les primitifs siennois. Paris: A. Michel, 1926. page number: p. 111 url: Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, Hans Vollmer, B. C. Kreplin, J. Müller, Ludwig Scheewe, H. Wolff, and O. Kellner. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler: von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart Bd XXIII Bd XXIII. 1929. page number: p. 277 url: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), and A. E. Popham. Italian Drawings Exhibited at the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, 1930. London: The Oxford University Press, and the Executive Committee of the exhibition, 1931. page number: no. 30 url: Weigelt, "Minor Simonesque Masters," Apollo XIV (1931) page number: p. 13, fig. XII url: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. 1932. page number: p. 360 url: Sandberg-Vavala, Eveyln. "Some Partial Reconstructions - 1" Burlington Magazine LXXI (1937). page number: p. 177, n. 6 url: Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, and Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler: von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart Bd XXXVII Bd XXXVII. 1950. page number: p. 194 url: Francis, H. (1953). A Sienese "Madonna and Child" by Lippo Memmi. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 40(4). page number: pp. 59-61 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141873 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 392 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n73 Frinta, Mojmir. "An Investigation of the Punched Decoration of Medieval Italian and Non-Italian Panel Painting," The Art Bulletin XLVII (June 1965). page number: pp. 259-9, fig. 23 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 54 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n78 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 54 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n78 Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. . page number: pp. 99-101, cat. no. 36; figs 36a; colorplate XXI url: Critica D'Arte Anno XLII, Nuva Ser. fasc. 151 (Jan-June 1977). page number: p. 75 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 63 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n83 De Benedictis, Cristina. La pittura senese 1330-1370. Firenze: Salimbeni libreria editrice, 1979. page number: pp. 22, 90, fig. 30 url: Real, William A. "Exploring New Applications for Infrared Reflectography." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 8 (1985). page number: pp. 390-412 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159923 Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy. The Robert Lehman Collection. New York: The Museum, 1987. page number: p. 26 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: Cat. no. 97, p. 260 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.110/1952.110_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.110/1952.110_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.110/1952.110_full.tif