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Master of the Lazzaroni Madonna active in Florence third quarter 14th Century
Description
- Master of the Lazzaroni Madonna
- The Madonna and Child enthroned with Saints Barbara, Paul, Peter and another Saint, with Saints Anthony Abbot, Catherine, Nicholas of Tolentino, the Annunciation and Crucifixion: A Triptych
- shaped top, tempera, gold ground, unframed
Catalogue Note
The Master of the Lazzaroni Madonna was a follower of Nardo di Cione and later Andrea di Bonaiuto, whose influence is most evident in the present triptych. His work was first isolated in print by Richard Offner (see A Legacy of Attributions, New York 1981, pp. 37-38) around a panel formerly in the Lazzaroni collection, Paris, and his oeuvre has been amplified by subsequent scholars (see, for example, M. Boskovits, La Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, Florence 1975, pp. 239-240, footnote 169).
We are grateful to Prof. Miklòs Boskovits for suggesting the present attribution based on first hand inspection. He relates the composition of the present triptych to the two shutters formerly in the collection of The New-York Historical Society (see Boskovits, op. cit., fig. 415).