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ID number: BIRBI-44.2 Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Artist / Maker: Matteo, di Giovanni (c.1430?-1495) Title / Object name: Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St Michael the Archangel Object type: Painting Culture: Italian Date made: about 1485/95 Materials: Tempera on wood Measurements: 57.9 x 40.4 cm Provenance: Bishop of Danzig (before 1850); Henry Farrer, 1857; H. Willet; S. Herman de Zoete, 1885; Pierpoint Morgan; purchased from the Pierpoint Morgan sale at Christie's in 1944 for £5,460. |
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John the Baptist, to the left, points to the infant Christ. His banner proclaims ECCE AGNUS DEI - ‘Here is [the lamb] of God’. John wears the camel-hair robe which signifies his role as the preacher in the desert who proclaimed the coming of Christ. Notes: Exhibited: 'Art Treasures of Great Britain', Manchester, 1857, no. 95; 'Old Masters', Royal Academy, London, 1887, no. 169; 'Early Italian Art', New Gallery, London, 1893, no. 13; 'Pictures of the School of Siena', Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1904, no. 37; 'Italian Art and Britain', Royal Academy, London, 1960, no. 286; 'Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on', Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, 2007. |
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| Matteo, di Giovanni Italian c. 1430? 1495 | |
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| Sienese quattrocentro painting Pope-Hennessy, J. 1947 | |
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