Said to be from Idalium, Cyprus (A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection…, 1903, vol. 3, pt. 2, pl. LXXVIII, 1) Between 1865 and 1872, excavated in Idalium, Cyprus, by Luigi Palma di Cesnola; afterwards, collection of L
History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to the Sixteenth Century, Vol. 1. p.
a: 63 1/2 × 14 1/2 × 25 3/4 in., 318 lb. (161.3 × 36.8 × 65.4 cm, 144.2 kg) b:
The Master of Varlungo is the name attached to a group of pictures apparently dating from the last two decades of the thirteenth century. His eponymous work is a fragmentary Madonna and Child in the church of San Pietro a Varlungo, Florence
Edward B. Garrison. Italian Romanesque Panel Painting.
The Artist: The Master of the Magdalen is the name given by Osvald Sirén (1922) to the anonymous artist who was active in the second half of the thirteenth century and painted a panel in the Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence representing Saint Mary Magdalen and eight episodes of her life (fig
Florence, 1943, p. 237, no. 73, ill. p. 236, as in the Straus collection, New York
Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 113 (Jul. 1, 1982–Jun. 30, 1983). p.
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 6(11): p. 211. Richter, Gisela M.
The Development of Attic Black Figure, Vol. 24, 2nd ed.. p. 99 [p. 38 n. 11], pl.
reportedly the parish church, Castelfranco di Sopra, near Florence (until late 18th century); the Baglioni family, villa Baglioni, Cerreto (late 18th century–about 1903); [Stefano Bardini, Florence, until 1903; probably sold for 115,000 lire through A
Milan, [1936], p. 87, fig. 1 [French ed., (1937), p. 93, fig. 1], calls it the first
[By 1932, known on the art market]; [1940, purchased by Joseph Brummer from Arthur Upham Pope (Brummer inv. no. N4513)]; acquired by the Museum in 1947, purchased from the estate of Joseph Brummer, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 7 (7), p. 189, ill. p. 197.
