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Italians in Avignon in the late fourteenth century: in search of the painters

01/2024 | 1450 | 166

Pages: 38–43

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Author:

Castelnuovo, Guido (Castelnuovo, Guido)

Subjects

artists:

Changenet family / Bernard of Toulouse / Iverny, Jacques

artists:

Martini, Simone / Quarton, Enguerrand / Giovannetti, Matteo / Froment, Nicolas / Le Moiturier, Antoine / Grassi, Giovanni (active 1487–1502)

dates:

1300-1499

patrons:

Peruzzi, Luigi di Ridolfo, 1410-1484 / Ruspo, Lapo di

places:

Avignon

subjects:

Italians / Italian art / French art / Patronage / French medieval art / Altarpieces / Commissions / Patronage / 1300-1499

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Virgin of humility, by Simone Martini. 1341. Fresco. (Musée du Palais des Papes, Avignon; formerly in the porch of the cathedral, Notre-Damedes- Doms, Avignon; Bridgeman Images).

Attributed works:

2. Adoration of the Cross (Pérussis altarpiece), by an artist in the circle of Nicolas Froment. 1480. Three panels, each 138.4 by 58.4 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Attributed works:

3. Anglic Grimoard kneeling before the Virgin and Child (from the Terrier of Anglic Grimoard), by Bernard of Toulouse and Marie. 1366–68. Illumination on parchment, 44.5 by 34.5 cm. (Archives départementales de Vaucluse, Avignon, MS 1.G.10, fol.unnumbered).

Attributed works:

4. Madonna della Misericordia, by Enguerrand Quarton. c.1452. Oil on panel, 66 by 187 cm. (Musée Condé, Chantilly; Bridgeman Images).

Attributed works:

5. Detail of Prophets, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1353. Fresco. (Great Audience, Papal Palace, Avignon; Bridgeman Images).

Western art unattributed:

6. A detail of the frescos in the Cardini Chapel, Saint-Didier, Avignon. c.1360–65. (Photograph Zoë Opačić).

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