[3] [3]A fresco in the church of Santi Fermo e Rustico in Verona representing the Coronation of the Virgin must date several years before 1324. Fra Angelica created this tempera with an egg-yolk medium. Cf. . . Jane Turner, 34 vols. The roman numerals CCCXXIIII are painted on the base of the throne, near Jesuss feet. the panel during a restoration treatment in 1953. The episode first appears in medieval sources, but it was not until the thirteenth century that the scene in which Christ places the crown on his mothers head is explicitly illustrated in monumental painting and sculpture. Edward B. Garrison, Published as a work of the Veneto-Byzantine school of the 14th century by Ettore Merkel, Isole del nord della Laguna,, The neo-Hellenistic tendency, attested in the field of monumental painting by the frescoes of Sopoani, is also exemplified by various icons in the collection of the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, or by the miniatures in the. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 2021, and figs. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. An old photograph, taken in the late nineteenth century [fig. Cf. and the fragment of a Crucifixion that surfaced at an auction sale in Rome in 1974, but which has since gone untraced. 1923, and in more recent years Alessandro Marchi, in Il Trecento adriatico: Paolo Veneziano e la pittura tra Oriente e Occidente, ed. Cf. [1] [1]See Philippe Verdier, Le couronnement de la Vierge: Les origines et les premiers dveloppements dun thme iconographique (Montral and Paris, 1980); Marie-Louise Threl, Le triomphe de la vierge-glise: A lorigine du dcor du portail occidental de Notre-Dame de Senlis (Paris, 1984). Mauro Lucco, 2 vols. 21 of the Accademia in Venice. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed.. Cf. They all have dark eyes, long, straight noses, and their small red mouths are closed. (Milan, 1992), 2:544; Mojmir Svatopluk Frinta, Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting (Prague, 1998), 127, 128; Fulvio Zuliani, in Da Giotto al tardogotico: Dipinti dei Musei Civici di Padova del Trecento e della prima met del Quattrocento, ed. The motif of the star-studded celestial sphere is also present in the antependium of Krk and the fresco of Gemona cited in the previous note. . Carla Travi, Il Maestro del trittico di Santa Chiara: Appunti per la pittura veneta di primo Trecento, Arte cristiana 80 (1992): 96 n.57. Enter or exit from Constitution Avenue or Madison Drive. ), framed: 115.3 x 86 x 8.9 cm (45 3/8 x 33 7/8 x 3 1/2 in. [22] [22]Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 5960 and figs. Instead, the author of the Washington Coronation dedicates particular attention to the corporeal substance of his figures, which in general seem more restricted in movement and more reserved in comportment than those that populate the paintings of Paolo Veneziano. The record's lyrics, as well as the cover, were controversial at the time; both the British . The artist applied the paint on a moderately thick gessoGesso A mixture of finely ground plaster and glue applied to wood panels to create a smooth painting surface. See Raimond van Marle, Michelangelo Muraro, Maestro Paolo da Venezia: Fortuna critica,. rather important commissionto paint the Coronation of the Virgin for the Oddi Chapel in the church of San Francesco, Perugia. Now much damaged, it was rightly restored to the young Paolo Veneziano (Venetian, active 1333 - 1358) by Andrea De Marchi (2004) with a dating to the early third decade. It is also sometimes called a retable, following the medieval term retrotabulum. The Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feast every August 22, where it replaced the former octave of the Assumption of Mary in 1969, a move made by Pope Paul VI. Now much damaged, it was rightly restored to the young. J0332 and identify the Broglio family member from whom it was purchased. In works such as the panel now in Washington (dated 1324) he aspires to a figural style characterized by gothicizing elegance of movement and fluency in linear rhythms [fig. 1]  [fig. By the 15th century, more individual interpretations are found. Fra Angelico with a larger court setting, 1430-1431, German 15th-century version with donors, Master of the Life of the Virgin, Filippo Lippi (1467-1469); apse of the cathedral of Spoleto, Botticelli, with only God the Father in evidence, 1490-1492, Swedish 15th-century altarpiece in carved and painted wood (Kllunge Church), Conventional depiction of the Trinity, with Christ showing the wounds of his Passion, Enguerrand Quarton with Christ and God the Father as identical figures, as specified by the cleric who commissioned the work, Page from Book of Hours, with three human figures for the Trinity, Jean Fouquet, also with three human figures, in this case three identical depictions of Jesus, Albrecht Drer combines the subject with an Assumption, Attributed to Amaro do Vale[pt], c. 1615-1619, Banner of the Irish Catholic Confederation (16421652). Alessandro Tomei, Iacobus Torriti pictor: Una vicenda figurativa del tardo Duecento romano (Rome, 1990), 68. If the artist followed a decidedly philo-Byzantine orientation in his initial phase, in his paintings of the 1320s he draws closer to the classicism pursued by Giotto and other artists of central Italy. 12. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), figs. The results of the masters activity in the 1310s, or slightly before, are probably the Crucifixion in the Serbian Orthodox church of Split (Spalato);[16] [16]Published by Kruno Prijatelk, Nota su una Crocifissione vicina a Paolo Veneziano a Split (Spalato), Arte veneta 40 (1986): 148150, the painting was restored to the Master of Caorle by Mauro Lucco, Maestro di Caorle, in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, ed. Various scholars (including Flores dArcais 1992) have attributed it to Paolo Veneziano, but Filippo Pedrocco (2003) cited it as the work of a maestro precedente (i.e., a master earlier than Paolo). In general the art of this period, often paid for by royalty and the nobility, increasingly regarded the heavenly court as a mirror of earthly ones. . . Hans Belting (Bologna, 1982), 10 n.20; Marvin Eisenberg, Lorenzo Monaco (Princeton, 1989), 61 n.83; Filippo Pedrocco, Paolo Veneziano (Milan and Venice, 2003), 213. 141) in the National Museum in Belgrade, classifying them as works of a predecessor, perhaps even the master, of Paolo Veneziano. Alexander Nagel, Grove Art Oxford University Pressone with three, the other with four figures of saintsnow in the Pinacoteca Civica in Forl;[17] [17]The two fragments in Forl, left in anonymity by earlier art historians such as Edward B. Garrison (1949) and Giordano Viroli (1980), were attributed to the Master of Caorle by Giovanni Valagussa (1995). An iconographicIconography, or Iconology Terms that refer broadly to the study of subjects and themes in works of art. Andrea De Marchi (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, 2005), 1415; Andrea De Marchi, La postrit du devant dautel Venise: Retables orfvrs et retables peints, in The Altar and its Environment, 11501400, ed. Mauro Lucco, 2 vols. These include one other dated painting: namely, the altar frontal of the Blessed Leone Bembo now at the treasury of the Church of Saint Blase in Vodnjan (Dignano dIstria) in Croatia, painted for the Venetian church of San Sebastiano in 1321. (New York, 1996), 24:30; Mauro Lucco, Pittura del Trecento a Venezia, in La Pittura in Italia: Il Duecento e il Trecento, ed. 9; Paolo Veneziano, in Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani: Dall XI al XX secolo, ed. and his son Giovanni signed The Coronation of the Virgin in 1358; it is the last known work by him. The eight angels are spaced over the throne, and are smaller in scale, about half the size of Mary and Jesus. Giuseppe Marchini, Cf. 21 of the Gallerie dellAccademia in Venice and in the fragmentary panel of the Museo di Palazzo Venezia in Rome. The great Umbrian master Pietro Perugino was executing the frescoes in the Collegio del Cambio at Perugia between 1498 and 1500, enabling Raphael, as a member of his workshop, to, In The Coronation of the Virgin (163536) the solemnity and dignity of the holy persons are set off by their voluminous colourful robes in a composition of exceptional splendour specially fitting for a painting of the Queen of Heaven made to adorn the oratory of the. Mauro Lucco, 2 vols. The historic Coronation Chair on which Henry VIII and other monarchs of England and later Britain have been crowned for some 700 years is getting a makeover ahead of this year's ceremony for King Charles, London's Westminster Abbey said. Carla Travi, Su una recente storia della pittura del Veneto nel Trecento, Arte cristiana 82 (1994):71. (Turin, 1993), 4:139; John Hand, National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection (New York, 2004), 10. Overview This Coronation of the Virgin may be the first time the subject, which originated in the West, appears in Venetian art. The two painters, however, should not be confused. . Mauro Lucco, 2 vols. On 9 June 1311, this magnificent work was carried in procession through the streets of . See Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 3] Master of the Washington Coronation, Published by Viktor Nikiti Lazarev, Saggi sulla pittura veneziana dei secoli XIIIXIV: La maniera greca e il problema della scuola cretese,. The belief in Mary as Queen of Heaven obtained the papal sanction of Pope Pius XII in his encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam (English: 'Queenship of Mary in Heaven') of October 11, 1954.[1][2]. The National Gallery's tender painting, with its imagery of the chaste Virgin, betrothed by the exchange . Export from an object page includes entry, notes, images, and all menu items except overview and related contents. 16, Paintings, 1945-1953). 1] Reconstruction of a dispersed polyptych by the Master of the Washington Coronation: a. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2111. IV; Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 48 and fig 156. But there are good grounds for assuming that it would have been flanked by a series of stories of Christ or stories of the Virgin, arranged in two superimposed tiers, rather than by standing figures of saints, as found, for instance, in polyptychsPolyptych Type of object with several panels, usually an altarpiece, although it may also fulfil other functions. (Entry fig. An intensive analysis of Enguerrand Quarton's Coronation of the Virgin will expose wonders to the human eye.Upon first glance, one can see that this piece of art has a religious significance. The lower portion is split. Richard Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting: The Fourteenth Century, sec. Inspired by African and Iberian art, he also contributed to the rise of Surrealism and Expressionism. Italian Paintings 13th and 14th Centuries, Read our full Open Access policy for images, Paolo Veneziano (Venetian, active 1333 - 1358). Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), figs. One of the principal concerns of iconography is the discovery of symbolic and allegorical meanings in a work of art. 1618. Ca. The Coronation of the Virgin (New York, 1996), 20:784; Robert Gibbs, Paolo Veneziano, in The Dictionary of Art, ed. A second Coronation of the Virgin, executed about 1445, displays a marked change in the style of Lippifrom the plastic values suggested by his study of Masaccio to the serene chromatics of Angelico. The scriptural basis is found in the Song of Songs (4.8), Psalms (45.1112) and Revelation (12.17). [1] The NGA scientific research department analyzed the gilding of the inscription, that of the background, and that of an area of restoration using x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (see report dated February 9, 1999, in NGA conservation files). Cf. Her mantle and Jesuss robe are painted with gold lines to indicate folds. West Building [4] [4]Photograph in the NGA conservation files. Although in principle every object with two panels or more may be called a polyptych, the word is normally used as a general term for anything larger than a triptych. [1] Dr. J. Carl [or Carlo?] 1, Le vetrate dellUmbria (Rome, 1973), 136; Lucio Grossato, ed., Da Giotto al Mantegna (Milan, 1974), no. Nonetheless, the catalogue of the sculptors estate sale, Collezione del fu Comm. Paolo Golinelli and Caterina Gemma Brenzoni (Verona, 2004), 199219. They are the Madonna and Child no. De Marchi (206) dated the frescoed decoration of the church in Verona to the early 1320s, in a period in cui il giovanissimo Paolo sembra muoversi ancora sotto tutela del Maestro dellIncoronazione del 1324, forse suo padre Martino (in which the very young Paolo seems still to be moving under the tutelage of the Master of the 1324 Coronation, perhaps his father Martino). The sale catalog linked this work with the circle of the painter of the Washington Coronation, and Carla Travi later inserted it in the catalog of the Master of Caorle (alternative name of the Master of the Washington Coronation). I think it probable, on grounds of style and measurements, that the panel of the prophets Jeremiah and Daniel and the busts of two Evangelists [fig. All three areas showed the same elements; therefore, this type of analysis could not be used to determine if the inscription is original. Christ and the Father are normally differentiated by age, and to some extent by costume: God the Father is often wearing a beehive-shaped crown, reminiscent of a Papal tiara. Usually ascribed to Paolo Veneziano,[13] [13]On the panel now at Vodnjan, Blessed Leone Bembo with a Donor, Angels, and Four Stories of His Life, cf. Cf. The gold striations that define the figures robes, the flat gold background, and the almost abstract way that colors and shapes fill the field might have been copied from a Byzantine icon. Christies, Rome, May 20, 1974, lot. 164-66, ill., compare the Virgin to the one in Botticelli's large Coronation of 1490 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence), but find it "far removed from the emotional character of Botticelli's late works"; attribute it to a follower, "someone perhaps familiar with the work of Raffaellino del Garbo," and date it near 1500. But instead of cultivating the formal complexities and agitated rhythms of Byzantine painting of his day, the artist seems to draw inspiration from the powerful firmness of the bodies and the incisive figurative style of the painted images of previous decades. 1604 in the Musei Civici in Padua and with the Madonna (no. In Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, she is shown as the mother of Christ, who participates in his kingdom. (fig. In earlier versions, Mary and Christ often sit side-by-side on a wide throne, and typically are only accompanied by angels in smaller altarpieces, although these were often in polyptych form, and had saints on side-panels, now often separated. Antonio Dal Zotto [18411918], Venice. Another The Coronation of the Virgin, which is dated 1324, is also attributed to Paolo. [23] [23]Although various scholars have expressed doubt, I think Rodolfo Pallucchini (1964) was right to see the hand of the young Paolo in the figures of the two tiny donors painted kneeling at the feet of the wooden relief of San Donato in the altarpiece at Murano, a work dated 1310 and hence the earliest testimony of the artists activity. Subsequently, only Viktor Lazarev, at least in a first publication dating to 1931, preferred to leave the painting in anonymity, while other art historians, until 1965, remained convinced of Paolos authorship. "God Save the Queen" is a song by the English punk rock band the Sex Pistols. Picasso's sizable oeuvre grew to . The Coronation Chair, which dates back to the year 1300, will be cleaned and stabilized by Westminster Abbey's paintings conservator in preparation for the May 6 coronation and the busts of apostles from the iconostasis of Caorle Cathedral. [18] [18]Published as a work of the Veneto-Byzantine school of the 14th century by Ettore Merkel, Isole del nord della Laguna, Quaderni della Soprintendenza ai beni artistici e storici di Venezia 14 (1986): 159160, the panel was reassigned to the Master of Caorle by the present writer. [1] On the life and career of the sculptor Dal Zotto see Livia Alberton Vinco da Sesso, "Antonio dal Zotto," in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, 77 vols., Rome, 1960-: 32(1986): 285287. According to Luciano Bellosi, on the other hand (1985), the architectural settings of these frescoes were troppo solide e concrete per non postulare un precedente assisiate (too concrete and solid not to postulate a precedent [for them] in Assisi), and this implied a dating to the early years of the fourteenth century. Mikls Boskovits, Ada Labriola, and Martina Ingendaay Rodio, new ed. 1] Reconstruction of a dispersed polyptych by the Master of the Washington Coronation: a. Cail's boyfriend, whose name was not released by police . A late thirteenth-century date had already been postulated by Lazarev (1965), the first to compare the San Zan Degol cycle with the Madonna in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Washington Coronation, followed by Boskovits (1989), who included in the masters oeuvre, in addition to the aforesaid works, the panels in Caorle (for which see also note 22 below). No evidence has yet been found of other panels with which it might have belonged. Bittis elongated figures, elegant poses, and planar rendering of drapery reflect his Mannerist training. )overall: 108.3 79 1.5 cm (42 5/8 31 1/8 9/16 in. Fibonacci Analysis of The Coronation of the Virgin (Louvre) by Fra Angelico - Kindle edition by Gulcugil, Ates. ), 1324, tempera on panel, formerly Vittorio Cini collection, Venice, formerly in the Cini collection in Venice and now in another private collection, belonged to this latter zone of the polyptych;[7] [7]Rodolfo Pallucchini (1964) published the panel, citing its provenance as the collection of the art historian Detlev von Hadeln (18781935) in Florence and its size as 26 90 cm. Cf. [2] Michelangelo Muraro, Paolo da Venezia, Milano, 1969: 157, transmits the reported provenance of the painting from the Broglio collection, annotated on a photograph in the photographic archive of the Biblioteca Berenson at the Villa I Tatti, Florence. Antonio del Zotto e gi Giuseppe Piccoli (Geri-Salvadori, Venice, 1-16 September 1919), does not cite the painting, which perhaps had already been sold. Subsequently, only Viktor Lazarev, at least in a first publication dating to 1931, preferred to leave the painting in anonymity, while other art historians, until 1965, remained convinced of Paolos authorship. The term gothic is applied to western European painting of the 13th century to the early 15th century. Carlo Bertelli, Il millennio ambrosiano (Milan, 1989), 67 n.68; Carla Travi, Su una recente storia della pittura del Veneto nel Trecento, Arte cristiana 82 (1994): 71. The subject is also notable as one where the whole Christian Trinity is often shown together, sometimes in unusual ways. [4] The Three kings present their crowns to the newly born Jesus as a symbol of secular power submitting to Christ. 7212 in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the above-mentioned fragment with figures of saints and prophets formerly in the Cini collection in Venice, and the painted crucifix now in the church of San Giorgio dei Greci in Venice. Mauro Lucco, Maestro di Caorle, in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, ed. [fig. The panel in the National Gallery of Art is one of the earliest representations of the subject that has come down to us from the Veneto region. J.E.A. Kroesen and Victor Michael Schmidt (Turnhout, 2009), 63. One shoe peeks out from under Marys hem, and Jesuss feet are bare. The earliest work by Angelico that can be dated with certainty, Bellinis great Coronation of the Virgin at Pesaro, for example, might have reflected some of the compositional elements of Pieros lost Coronation of the Virgin, painted as the central panel of a polyptych. The Coronation of the Virgin. Sculpture Garden The great majority of Roman Catholic churches had (and have) a side-altar or "Lady chapel" dedicated to Mary. English: Coronation of the Virgin Altarpiece by Guariento di Arpo, 1344, tempera and gold leaf on panel, Norton Simon Museum 1, VIIIXVIvekov (Moscow, 2002), 4143. the two fragments of an altarpieceAltarpiece An image-bearing structure set on the rear part of the altar, abutting the back of the altarblock, or set behind the altar in such a way as to be visually joined with the altar when viewed from a distance. The alternation of full-length prophets and half-figure apostles would seem to exclude the alleged provenance of the former Cini collection panel either from a predella or from an iconostasis. Lazarev (1965) was the first to reunite the Washington Coronation with the Madonna no. But the alternative proposal by Michelangelo Muraro (1965, 1969), who placed the Washington panel at the center of his reconstruction of the oeuvre of an artist he considered the stylistic precursor and perhaps even the elder brother of Paolo, has met with increasing consent since the latter decades of the twentieth century. The celebrated altarpiece is exquisitely sumptuous in appearance and marks a historic point in Florentine painting in its success in uniting as one scene the various panels of a polyptych. The "crown" of Mary has been mentioned since the 6th century, as "corona virginum" (crown of virgins). ), in Fra Ludovico da Pietralunga and Pietro Scarpellini, Descrizione della Basilica di S. Francesco e di altri Santuari di Assisi (Treviso, 1982), 344; Robert Gibbs, Locchio di Tomaso: Sulla formazione di Tomaso da Modena (Treviso, 1981), 37; Robert Gibbs, A Fresco by Marco or Paolo Veneziano in Treviso, Studi trevisani 1 (1984): 2729, 30 n.7; Robert Gibbs, Tomaso da Modena: Painting in Emilia and the March of Treviso, 13401380 (Cambridge, 1989), 29; Robert Gibbs, Master of the Washington Coronation, in The Dictionary of Art, ed. On paintings by Tuscan artists in which Christ crowns Mary generally with both hands, cf. (Milan, 1986), 2:648; Mauro Lucco, Maestro dellIncoronazione della Vergine di Washington, in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, ed. There are three examples extant on Devon rood screen dados: at East Portlemouth, Holne, and Torbryan. Enrico Castelnuovo and Bruno Toscano, 6 vols. Enter or exit at 4th Street. My interest in Enguerrand Quarton's Coronation of the Virgin goes back to the early 1980s when 1 chose it as topic for a memoire de licence ("Le Couronnement de la Vierge d'Enguerrand Quarton: Thologie et histoire des mentalits d'une iconographie. Both pieces explore aspects of religion and spirituality. Francesca Flores dArcais, in Il Trecento adriatico: Paolo Veneziano e la pittura tra Oriente e Occidente, ed. Cf. 2734. One angel above places a crown on her head, while two others flank her in the folding . The arched area over the throne comes to a point, and is carved with leaves around the arch. Stained glass window at St. Michael's Cathedral (Toronto) depicts Coronation of the Virgin. In part because of the ready availability of these pigments, the brilliant color we see here would continue to be a hallmark of Venetian painting into the Renaissance and beyond. It is therefore probable that the elderly master shared a workshop around this time with the rising star of fourteenth-century Venetian painting. 2023 National Gallery of Art Notices Terms of Use Privacy Policy. More correctly, Mauro Lucco (1992) connected the panels in Caorle with some works in the catalog of the Master of the Washington Coronation, while Travi (1994) combined under the conventional name of the Master of Caorle the majority of the works attributable to the master of the panel in Washington. This original and lasting function influenced the many forms taken by the altarpiece throughout its history. Grove Art Oxford University Press groundGround The layer or layers used to prepare the support to hold the paint., apparently without the help of a preparatory underdrawingUnderdrawing A drawing executed on a ground before paint is applied.. 54 in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. 1 . the panel provides further evidence of the essential stylistic continuity between the manner of Paolo and that of the older master. Read more: yahoo (Milan, 1992), 2:537. Holiness appears to be overlooking a tremendous event occurring below. The subject also drew from the idea of the Virgin as the "throne of Solomon", that is the throne on which a Christ-child sits in a Madonna and Child. This enormous ensemble, measuring about 510 450 cm (200 175 inches, or more than 16 14 feet), features the frequently. Ghirlandaio places this close encounter of the Biblical kind at the top of a staircase inside what appears to be a . The Coronation of the Virgin was painted between the time of 1370-1380. Photograph in the NGA conservation files. 73. 1, Le vetrate dellUmbria (Rome, 1973), 136; Luciano Gargan, Cultura e arte nel Veneto al tempo del Petrarca (Padua, 1978), 58; Hans Belting, Introduzione, in Il medio oriente e loccidente nellarte del XIII secolo, Atti del XXIV congresso internazionale di storia dellarte, September 1018, 1979, ed. Perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space. The feast was formerly celebrated on May 31, at the end of the Marian month, where the present general calendar now commemorates the Feast of the Visitation. Victor M. Schmidt, Grove Art Oxford University Press of the full maturity of Paolo Veneziano. See also Provenance note 1. [8] [8]Following its late nineteenth-century attributionby whom remains unclearto CaterinoVeneziano (in the caption of the nineteenth-century photographcited in Technical Summary note 3), Raimond van Marle (1924) cited the Coronationas an anonymous work of gothico-byzantine style. Evelyn Sandberg-Vaval in 1930 expressed the view that it is highly feasible to attribute it to Maestro Paolo himself, and in the following year Giuseppe Fiocco (19301931) unhesitatingly confirmed this attribution. Contact with Byzantine art was close in the early 13th century, but after c. 1250 survived principally in the Holy Roman Empire and Italy. Sell with Artsy Artist Series Portraits of Artists and Sculptors 113 available Portraits of Artists and Sculptors 113 available In particular, the articulation of forms in the latter, with zones of color almost geometrical in regularity, and their modeling with energetic brushstrokes and sudden flashes of white highlights suggest that they were executed within the last decade of the thirteenth century. Some of the earliest representations were carved above cathedral doorways in Franceand certain elements in the Gallery's paintingits elaborate halos, for exampleshare in the decorative elegance of Gothic art. Copies of the Knoedler bill and sale record are in NGA curatorial files. The Coronation of the Virgin is recounted not in the New Testament but in the apocryphal story of the Virgin's death. These frescoes are variously attributed and dated,[19] [19]Discussed by Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 10, figs. Mikls Boskovits (19352011), Master of the Washington Coronation/The Coronation of the Virgin/1324, Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/41702 (accessed March 01, 2023). The proportions of the individual panels of the former Cini painting, less squat than those of the predellas of Venetian altarpieces of the period, also suggest that they are more likely to belong to the upper register of an altarpiece. in the flesh tones and mordant gilding on top of the paint to decorate the draperies. A crowned Mary is usually seen in Jesse Trees, which stress her earthly royal descent from the House of David, something accorded considerable importance in the Middle Ages. 1]  [fig. Enrico Castelnuovo, 2 vols. See Francesca Flores dArcais, Venezia, in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, ed. 1592. 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