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          NGA Online Editions                        Italian Paintings 13th and 14th Centuries                

# Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

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                      Miklós Boskovits (1935–2011), Jason Di Resta,  *Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries*, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/catalogue/italian-paintings-of-the-thirteenth-and-fourteenth-centuries (accessed April 19, 2024).                   

                    - History of the Collection
                    - Notes to the Reader
                    - Credits and Acknowledgments
                    - In Memoriam: Miklós Boskovits

                    -  	                   Allegretto Nuzi	                
                    -  	                   Andrea di Bartolo	                
                    -  	                   Baronzio, Giovanni	                
                    -  	                   Bulgarini, Bartolomeo	                
                    -  	                   Byzantine 13th Century	                
                    -  	                   Daddi, Bernardo	                
                    -  	                   Duccio di Buoninsegna	                
                    -  	                   Fei, Paolo di Giovanni	                
                    -  	                   Gaddi, Agnolo	                
                    -  	                   Giotto	                
                    -  	                   Grifo di Tancredi	                
                    -  	                   Jacopo di Cione	                
                    -  	                   Lippo Memmi	                
                    -  	                   Lorenzetti, Pietro	                
                    -  	                   Lorenzo Monaco	                
                    -  	                   Margaritone d'Arezzo	                
                    -  	                   Martino di Bartolomeo	                
                    -  	                   Master of Città di Castello	                
                    -  	                   Master of Saint Francis	                
                    -  	                   Master of the Franciscan Crucifixes	                
                    -  	                   Master of the Washington Coronation	                
                    -  	                   Nardo di Cione	                
                    -  	                   Paolo Veneziano	                
                    -  	                   Puccio di Simone	                
                    -  	                   Simone Martini	                
                    -  	                   Tuscan 13th Century	                
                    -  	                   Vanni, Andrea di	                

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                    -                              The Angel of the Annunciation                     
                    -                              The Assumption of the Virgin with Busts of the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin of the Annunciation                     
                    -                              The Baptism of Christ                     
                    -                              The Birth, Naming, and Circumcision of Saint John the Baptist                     
                    -                              The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew                     
                    -                              Christ Blessing                     
                    -                              Christ on the Cross [reverse]                     
                    -                              The Coronation of the Virgin                     
                    -                              The Coronation of the Virgin with Six Angels                     
                    -                              The Crucifixion (Bernardo Daddi)                     
                    -                              The Crucifixion (Paolo Veneziano)                     
                    -                              Deacon Saint, with Saint Anthony Abbot [right panel]                     
                    -                              Enthroned Madonna and Child                     
                    -                              Joachim and Anna Giving Food to the Poor and Offerings to the Temple                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child (Giotto)                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child (Lorenzo Monaco)                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child, with Saints Peter and John the Evangelist, and Man of Sorrows [entire triptych]                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child, with the Blessing Christ [middle panel] (Pietro Lorenzetti)                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child, with the Blessing Christ [middle panel] (Martino di Bartolomeo)                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child, with the Man of Sorrows [middle panel]                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child Enthroned with Four Saints                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child Enthroned with Four Saints and Eighteen Angels [middle panel]                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels, and Saints Anthony Abbot and Venantius [entire triptych]                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child Enthroned with Twelve Angels, and with the Blessing Christ [middle panel]                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child on a Curved Throne                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child with Donor                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child with Five Angels                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child with God the Father Blessing and Angels                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Peter, and Two Angels                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child with Saints Andrew, Benedict, Bernard, and Catherine of Alexandria with Angels [entire triptych]                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child with the Blessing Christ, and Saints Mary Magdalene and Catherine of Alexandria with Angels [entire triptych]                     
                    -                              Madonna and Child with the Blessing Christ, and Saints Peter, James Major, Anthony Abbott, and a Deacon Saint [entire triptych]                     
                    -                              Madonna of Humility, The Blessing Christ, Two Angels, and a Donor [obverse]                     
                    -                              Maestà (Madonna and Child with Four Angels)                     
                    -                              The Mourning Madonna                     
                    -                              The Mourning Saint John the Evangelist                     
                    -                              The Nativity of the Virgin                     
                    -                              The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel                     
                    -                              The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (Andrea di Bartolo)                     
                    -                              The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (Paolo di Giovanni Fei)                     
                    -                              Saint Andrew and Saint Benedict with the Archangel Gabriel [left panel]                     
                    -                              Saint Anthony Abbot [left panel]                     
                    -                              Saint Bernard and Saint Catherine of Alexandria with the Virgin of the Annunciation [right panel]                     
                    -                              Saint Catherine of Alexandria                     
                    -                              Saint Catherine of Alexandria, with an Angel [right panel]                     
                    -                              Saint James Major (Grifo di Tancredi)                     
                    -                              Saint James Major (Simone Martini)                     
                    -                              Saint James Minor                     
                    -                              Saint John the Baptist                     
                    -                              Saint John the Evangelist                     
                    -                              Saint John the Evangelist [right panel]                     
                    -                              Saint Judas Thaddeus                     
                    -                              Saint Mary Magdalene, with an Angel [left panel]                     
                    -                              Saint Matthew                     
                    -                              Saint Paul and a Group of Worshippers                     
                    -                              Saint Peter                     
                    -                              Saint Peter, with Saint James Major [left panel]                     
                    -                              Saint Peter [left panel]                     
                    -                              Saint Simon                     
                    -                              Saint Venantius [right panel]                     
                    -                              Scenes from the Passion of Christ: The Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and the Descent into Limbo [entire triptych]                     
                    -                              Scenes from the Passion of Christ: The  Agony in the Garden [left panel]                     
                    -                              Scenes from the Passion of Christ: The Crucifixion [middle panel]                     
                    -                              Scenes from the Passion of Christ: The Descent into Limbo [right panel]                     

                    - Concordance of Old-New Attributions
                    - Concordance of Old-New Titles and Dates
                    - Concordance of Old-New Artist Names and Life Dates
                    - Glossary
                    - Bibliography  

                    -                         Jason Di Resta                    
                    -                         Joanna Dunn                    
                    -                         Miklós Boskovits                    

The National Gallery of Art’s collection of Italian paintings is considered the most important in America and among the finest and most comprehensive in the world. This part of the collection holds works by artists who were among the most influential Italian painters in all of art history, for example, Giotto and Duccio. In the case of the great Sienese master, the Gallery is the only institution in the United States to own two panels from Duccio’s monumental masterpiece, the *Maestà*. Paintings by Simone Martini, Lippo Memmi, Paolo Veneziano, Pietro Lorenzetti, Agnolo Gaddi, and other luminaries make the Gallery’s holdings highly significant for all those who study pre-Renaissance art in Italy. More than a decade in the making, this catalog offers a fresh examination of these works.

To provide the most authoritative scholarship on the earliest paintings in the collection—which has not been published in its entirety since the 1979 *Catalogue of Italian Paintings*by Fern Rusk Shapley—the Gallery turned to one of the leading historians of early Italian art, Miklós Boskovits. Each entry is conceived as a small monograph, an explanatory roadmap of a painter’s entire career. Similarly, the bibliography provided for each painting includes every significant citation. The history of ownership is also given in greater detail than heretofore, and all exhibitions in which a work appeared are included, because of the increasing importance of exhibitions for art historical investigation.

The paintings in this catalog are generally components of greater assemblages. Some are small works painted for private devotion; others are fragments from multipaneled altarpieces. An effort has been made, therefore, to suggest the original context for these works through schematic reconstructions, which will help users of the catalog understand the panels’ original purpose and meaning.

*This catalog represents the fortunate confluence of two interrelated strands: it is an encounter between the most refined and consequential assembly of early Italian paintings in this country, ranking among the greatest collections of such material anywhere outside of Italy, and the most original and influential scholar of this material, Miklós Boskovits, a man who defined many of the canonical presumptions on which the modern study of the period is based.*—Laurence Kanter, Chief Curator and Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art, Yale University Art Gallery, from “In Memoriam: Miklós Boskovits”

Audio / Video

Duccio's *Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel*Nardio di Cione's *Madonna and Child with Saint Peter and Saint John the Evangelist*Side by Side: Cimabue and Giotto at Pisa

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Byzantine Art and Painting in Italy during the 1200s and 1300sPainting in Siena in the 14th and Early 15th CenturiesItalian Altarpieces and Religious Sculpture of the 1300s

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