Rooms 6 and 7
This section explores the sphere of private devotion by bringing together significant examples of the paintings, sculptures, and manuscripts that filled the palaces of rich Florentine families. On display are precious books of hours, including the ones made for Lucrezia and Maddalena de’ Medici [cat. 41, 42], that received sumptuous illustration and exceptionally fine gilded covers. The role of the sacred in quotidian life is furthermore highlighted through images of the Virgin and Child by sculptors and painters such as Antonio Rossellino [cat. 46] and Domenico Ghirlandaio [cat. 47]. Other religious representations that graced Quattrocento interiors showed narrative scenes from the Life of the Virgin, images of Christ, and depictions of desert saints. All these paintings and objects bear witness to the exceptional degree of sophistication reached by the arts in Florence in the late fifteenth century.
Room 6
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- Autor:
- Florence, 1485
- Título:
- Morning on the Seine, Giverny
- Fecha:
- MS, 230 fols., ink on vellum, 182 x 110 mm; 5 full-page miniatures, 12 calendar illustrations, 5 pages with historiated initials, 7 other historiated initials
- Tipo:
- Bound in fifteenth-century Italy with gold, silver and emanel
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; inv. n. Clm 23639
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
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- Autor:
- Domenico Ghirlandaio (Florence, 1448/49–1494)
- Título:
- Virgin and Child, ca. 1475–77
- Fecha:
- Tipo:
- Tempera and oil (?) on panel, transferred to hardboard, 70.8 x 48.9 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Washington, National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection; inv. n 1961.9.49
- Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Photo by: Bob Grove
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- Autor:
- Antonio Rossellino (Settignano, 1427/28–Florence, 1479)
- Título:
- Madonna and Child with Two Adoring Angels, ca. 1470
- Fecha:
- Tipo:
- Marble, 69.5 x 52 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Kunstkammer; inv. n. KK 5455
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
- Numero de inventario
Room 7
- Autor:
- Biagio D’Antonio (Florence, 1446–1516)
- Título:
- Annunciation, ca. 1500
- Fecha:
- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas, 168 x 173.5 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca; inv. n. 696
- Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Roma
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- Autor:
- Domenico Ghirlandaio (Florence, 1448/49–1494)
- Título:
- The Man of Sorrows (Christ crowned with Thorns), 1480–90
- Fecha:
- Tipo:
- Tempera on panel, 54.3 x 33.7 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, John G. Johnson Collection, 1917; inv. n. 1176A
- Philadelphia Museum of Art; John G. Johnson Collection, 1917. PMA Department Photography
- Numero de inventario
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- Autor:
- Attributed to Benedetto da Maiano (Maiano, 1442–Florence, 1497)
- Título:
- Saint John the Baptist as an Adolescent, ca. 1465
- Fecha:
- Tipo:
- Marble, 40 x 31 x 18.5 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Faenza, Pinacoteca Comunale; inv. n. 196
- Pinacoteca Comunale, Faenza
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