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The Annunciation to Zacharias
ca. 1350-140069 1/2 x 53 5/8 x 1 5/8 in. (176.5 x 136.2 x 4.1 cm)
Master of the Urbino Coronation
Italy (active 1350 - 1375)
Italian, made for the church of S. Lucia
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Fresco transferred to canvas
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1943.3
Location: Currently on view
This painting was once part of a cycle of frescoes in the church of Santa Lucia in Fabriano, a town northeast of Rome. The series probably depicted the story of the life of Saint John the Baptist, who, according to Christian tradition, was the precursor of Christ. The subject, taken from the first chapter of the gospel book of Luke, presents the vision of the aged Zacharias as he officiates at the altar of incense and learns from the Angel Gabriel that his wife Elizabeth, although “well stricken in years,” is to bear a son, John, who will “make ready a people” for the coming of the Lord. The crowds, who “waited…and marveled,” are at the right, dressed in the style of Florence during the 1300s. The pointed turban of the middle figure indicates that he is Jewish. The kneeling figure at the left is probably the donor of the painting.
This painting was removed from the wall in the 1800s and has since been remounted on canvas. It has been connected to two others from the same church, The Crucifixion in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Birth of John the Baptist in the Galleria Nazionale, Rome.
[Gallery label text, June 2013]
This painting was removed from the wall in the 1800s and has since been remounted on canvas. It has been connected to two others from the same church, The Crucifixion in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Birth of John the Baptist in the Galleria Nazionale, Rome.
[Gallery label text, June 2013]
Provenance
[Stefano Bardini (1836-1922), Florence?;] Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955), by 1925; Emmanuel (Manolis) Segredakis (1891-1948), dealer, Paris and New York, ca. 1930; G.J. Demotte (dealer), New York; The Connoisseur, Inc. (dealer, New York?); purchased from them by Brummer Gallery, New York, December 1942 [catalogue number N5405]; purchased from them by the Gallery in 1943
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Around the World in Rochester 2/8/1952 - 3/2/1952
- Treasures from Rochester Memorial Art Gallery 4/14/1977 - 5/28/1977
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Author: Bennett, Bonnie Apgar. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988. Page Number: 42-43
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Denys Sutton. Treasures from Rochester: Exhibited at Wildenstein Galleries, New York, April 14-May 28, 1977: Summary Catalogue. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1977.
- Article Scope: Entry. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.
- Article Author: Zeri, Federico. Article Title: Un affresco del Maestro dell'Incoronazione d'Urbino. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Proporzioni. Florence: Sansoni Issue Number: 3. Issue Date: 1950. Page Number: 36-40, Figure Number: 3
- Article Title: Il Maestro della Incoronazione di Urbino. Article Scope: Chapter. Carlo Volpe. La pittura riminese del Trecento. Milan, Italy: M. Spagnol, 1965. Page Number: 50, 88, Figure Number: 296
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Laurence B. Kanter. Italian Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston: Volume I: 13th-15th century. Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1994.
- Article Title: Who is the 'Master of the Urbino Coronation'?. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. Alison Christine Fleming. Emerging from the Shadow of Giotto: The Riminese School and Other Masters in the Trecento Marche. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 2001. Page Number: 95-109, Figure Number: 66, p.207
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Susan Mosher Stuard. Gilding the Market: Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
- Stefan A. Horsthemke. Das Bild im Bild in der italienischen Malerei: zur Darstellung religiöser Gemälde im der Renaissance. Glienicke, Germany: Galda + Wilch, 1996.
- Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes.
- Scene. Rochester, NY: Arts & Cultural Council, 1969-1976.
- Nierika. Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Iberoamericana
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MOTET: INTER NATOS MULIERUM
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The Crucifixion
This Crucifixion is a section of the same fresco that our Annunciation to Zacharias is part of. A third section, the Birth of John the Baptist, is in the Palazzo Barberini, Rome.