Purchased in Luxor by Reverend Randolph Berens, ca. 1894. Later in Bruce collection, sold at Sotheby’s, Jan. 18, 1951, no. 286. Purchased by Albert Gallatin at a private sale at Spinks, London, 1951. Exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum, December 1959 – February 1960, and published in the exhibition’s catalog, 1961
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Bonne of Luxembourg (d. 1349) ; Charles V, King of France (by descent, d. 1380) ; Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris (until 1882) ; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (June 12–17, 1882, no. 3) ; Baron Horace de Landau, Florence (d
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Each of Moretto’s rare portraits of the 1520s and 1530s demonstrates his innovative approach to the genre, culminating in the outstanding Portrait of a Man (National Gallery, London, NG 1025) of 1526, one the earliest full-length, life-size, independent portraits in Italy
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Baron James Mayer de Rothschild (by 1865–d. 1868) ; his son, baron Gustave de Rothschild (until d. 1911) ; his son, baron Robert de Rothschild (d. 1946) ; by descent through the Rothschild family (until 2009) ; [ sold by private agreement through Christie’s, London ; to MMA ]
Radcliffe 1972, p. 47; Allen 2008a, pp. 194–99, cat. 16A. 13.
Beneath a curiously distended double arch of the nave of a church illuminated with bottle glass windows, the Virgin demurely extends her hand, on which a bearded Joseph places a ring rendered in raised, gilded pastiglia—the same technique used for the collar of the officiating priest and for the haloes decorated with pseudo-Kufic lettering
New York, 1954, p. 9. Franco Mazzini.
Marking: Arms (central panel, left window): D’or au chevron de sable charge sur sa pointe d’une chaine de quatre chainons d’argent elle meme placee en chevron. For Ingelbrechts (Ingelbrechts or Ymbrechts) of Malines and Spain
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The Artist: The Sienese master Simone Martini was one of the greatest and most influential painters of his time. His work combines an astonishing mastery of naturalistically observed details with an exquisite technique
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Gospel Book with Enameled and Jeweled Silver PlaquesThis Gospel manuscript was copied by the scribe Grigor the priest (k’ahanay), probably in Cilicia in the thirteenth century.[1] In the seventeenth century, the manuscript was further embellished with silver repoussé plaques produced by the silversmith Astuatsatur Shahamir in a workshop in Kayseri, as indicated by the inscriptions, which read: on the front, top, „Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace“; on the front, bottom, „This Gospel was made through his honestly earned assets to pray and praise our Savior, Jesus Christ“; and on the back, bottom, „And I, unworthy Astuatsatur Shahamir, decorated this with silver in the year of the Armenians 1140 [AD 1691] in the city of Kayseri, with God’s help
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Marking: Arms (central panel, left window): D’or au chevron de sable charge sur sa pointe d’une chaine de quatre chainons d’argent elle meme placee en chevron. For Ingelbrechts (Ingelbrechts or Ymbrechts) of Malines and Spain
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