id: 142472 accession number: 1966.237 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.237 updated: 2024-08-08 15:15:25.100000 Virgin and Child with Saints, c. 1230s. Berlinghiero (Italian, before 1242). Triptych (tabernacle); tempera and gold on poplar panel; overall: 42.6 x 51.5 cm (16 3/4 x 20 1/4 in.); center: 42.8 x 27 cm (16 7/8 x 10 5/8 in.); left: 42.5 x 12.5 cm (16 3/4 x 4 15/16 in.); right: 42.4 x 12 cm (16 11/16 x 4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1966.237 title: Virgin and Child with Saints title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1230s creation date earliest: 1225 creation date latest: 1235 current location: 105 Byzantine creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Italy, 13th century technique: triptych (tabernacle); tempera and gold on poplar panel department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Medieval Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Berlinghiero (Italian, before 1242) - artist Berlinghiero was first recorded in a Lucchese document of 1228 and mentioned as already dead by 1243. Crowe and Cavlcaselle's mistranslation of the document of 1228 (known only from a 1600s transcription) gave rise to the apparently mistaken assumption that Berlinghiero came from Milan and that his last name was Berlinghieri. These misconceptions persist despite the thorough review and corrected interpretation of the available sources published by Garrison (1951, I I ff.). Berlinghiero introduced Byzantine elements into the style of painting in Lucca which dominated that school during the first three-quarters of the 1200s and strongly influenced painting in Pisa and Florence. Attributions to Berlinghiero are based on his one signed work, a Crucifix, probably painted c. 1210-1220. Three sons were trained by Belinghiero and works by two of them, Bonaventura and Marco, are known. --- measurements: Overall: 42.6 x 51.5 cm (16 3/4 x 20 1/4 in.); Center: 42.8 x 27 cm (16 7/8 x 10 5/8 in.); Left: 42.5 x 12.5 cm (16 3/4 x 4 15/16 in.); Right: 42.4 x 12 cm (16 11/16 x 4 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Inscribed on central panel flanking Virgin: MP OV. On back of panel: XC IC HS NI translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage opening date: 1971-07-13T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Golden Anniversary Acquisitions, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 10-October 16, 1966).', 'opening_date': '1966-09-10T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Theodore Bonjean, Paris, France) date: footnotes: citations: (Peter Matthiesen, Matthiesen Gallery, London, England) date: -1938 footnotes: citations: Adolphe Stoclet (1871-1949), Brussels, Belgium date: after 1938 footnotes: citations: Mme. Michele Stoclet, Barcelona, Spain date: footnotes: citations: (Sale: Sotherby's, London, June 30, 1965, no. 21) date: June 30, 1965 footnotes: citations: Rudolf J. Heinemann, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Garrison, Jr., Edward B. "A Berlinghieresque Fresco in St. Stefano, Bologna," The Art Bulletin XXVIII (1946). page number: p. 215-219, fig. 7 url: Offner, Richard, and Klara Steinweg. A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. 3,5, 3,5. Florence: Giunti, 1947. page number: p 48, no. I, p. 56-57, no. 3, p. 207-208, no. 1, p. 252, n. 6, p. 259 url: Garrison, Jr. Edward B. "Post-War Discoveries- III: The Madonna di Sotto gli Organi," Burlington Magazine LXXXIX (October 1947). page number: p. 279. url: Garrison, Edward B. Italian Romanesque Panel Painting: An Illustrated Index. Florence: L.S. Olschki, 1949. page number: p.12, 112, no.284 url: Garrison, Jr. Edward B. “Addenda ad indicem II”, Bollettino D'Art XXXVI (1951). page number: p. 294, 296, no. 6 (cf., no. 1) url: Kaftal, George. Iconography of the Saints in Tuscan Painting. Florence: Sansoni, 1952. page number: p. xxiii, n. 7, cols 40, 613, 949 url: Garrison, Edward B. Studies in the History of Mediaeval Italian Painting. Florence: L'Impronta, 1953. page number: p. 261-264 url: Valentiner, W.R. “A Madonna by Berlinghiero Berlinghieri”, The North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin I (1957). page number: pp. 1-3 url: Stubblebine, James H. Guido Da Siena. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1964. page number: fig. 109 url: Sotheby's (Firm). Important Old Master Paintings. 1965. page number: p. 20 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. 51 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n75 “‘Golden Anniversary’ Acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Burlington Magazine 108, no. 764 (1966). page number: cat. no. 56 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/875138 Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." Artnews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64. page number: Reproduced p. 32 url: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places : Central Italian and North Italian Schools. London: Phaidon, 1968. page number: p. 46 url: 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. 51 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n73 Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. 1971. page number: no. 1 url: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. page number: pp. 26, 310, 360, 362, 369, 394, 422, 450, 459, 574 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. . page number: no 15, fig.15, pl. X 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. 62 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n82 Angiola, E.M. "Nuovi documenti su Bonaventura e Marco di Berlinghiero," Prospettiva (April 1980). page number: p. 84, n. 2 url: Ford, Terence. RIdIM/RCMI Inventory of Music Iconography. New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1991. page number: p. 3 no. 44 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Alan Chong. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: url: Cook, William R. Images of St. Francis of Assisi: In Painting, Stone and Glass : from the Earliest Images to Ca. 1320 in Italy : a Catalogue. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1999. page number: cat. no. 51, pp. 84-85 url: Turner, Kay. Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars. London: Thames & Hudson, 1999. page number: p. 8 url: Mauron, Véronique. Le signe incarné: ombres et reflets dans l'art contemporain. Paris: Hazan, 2001. page number: p. 261 url: Acidini Luchinat, Cristina, Sandro Bellesi, and Alberto Bruschi. Scoperte e ritorni: scritti in memoria di Alberto Bruschi. Firenze : Edizioni Polistampa 2022. 15 page number: Mentioned and reproduced; p.15, fig. 6 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.237/1966.237_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.237/1966.237_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.237/1966.237_full.tif