Looking at Photographs 100 Pictures From the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art Pdf
Overview
This panel is i of two owned by the National Gallery of Art from one of the almost important monuments of Western painting: the towering, ii-sided altarpiece known as the Maestà by
Standing on either side of this Birth are 2 Hebrew prophets, whose writings—quoted on the scrolls they hold—are thought by Christians to foretell Jesus'due south birth. The Gallery'south Birth joined other scenes from Jesus's childhood (and other prophets) that unfolded along the forepart horizontal base of the altarpiece called the "predella" beneath a monumental epitome of the Madonna and Kid in majesty, enthroned in a crowd of saints and angels (see
The visibility and potency of the Maestà, forth with Duccio's importance as a teacher, assistance explain Siena's sustained taste for the gold and abstraction of the Byzantine style even as artists elsewhere in Tuscany adopted a more naturalistic arroyo. This Birth blends Byzantine elements with more contemporary and local trends. The Virgin'south recumbent pose and out-of-scale size recall icons of the Nascency, and like many icon painters Duccio has included two midwives who launder and tend the new infant and confirm his virgin nascence. The cave setting also comes via the Greek E, only the manger roof is like to ones constitute in the Gothic fine art of northern Europe. While the issue of gold and brilliant color is highly decorative, Duccio's elegant lines and flowing brushstrokes soften the austerity of the Byzantine mode.
Completed in less than three years, the Maestà was a huge undertaking, for which Duccio received 3,000 gold florins—more than any artist had always allowable. Although he must have had substantial help from his pupils and workshop administration, the design and execution indicates that Duccio exercised control over the whole project. Moved to a side chantry in 1506, the altarpiece was sawn apart in the 1770s and private panels afterward dispersed. This makes it impossible to decide its dimensions with certainty, but it must accept been about 15 feet wide, with the gables rise to as much equally 17 feet high. In all, there were probably more than than 70 individual scenes.
Entry
The Nativity is flanked by the total-length figures of the two prophets who foretell the birth of Christ
On the iconography of the scene, cf. Gertrud Schiller, Ikonographie der christlichen Kunst, 6 vols. (Gütersloh, 1966 – 1990), 1:69 – 98; and Günter Ristow, "Geburt Christi," in Reallexikon zur byzantinischen Kunst, ed. Klaus Wessel, 7 vols. (Stuttgart, 1971), ii:637 – 662. The motif of the cave setting for the Nativity first appeared in the East in the sixth century, while the affiliation of this tradition with that usual in the Westward, in which the scene is placed in a hut, took place in Italian republic about 1300. The presence of the 2 animals side by side to the child lying in the manger is found in the earliest examples of the iconography, dating to the fourth century. The Church building fathers linked the paradigm of the ox and the donkey with a passage in the Prophet Habakkuk (iii:2): "O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years," a text that in Hebrew and in the Greek version of the Septuagint reads, "Y'all will reveal yourself between the ii animals." Christian exegetical literature later related these words to the ii Churches: the one that descended from the Jewish people, and the other that derives its origin from the gentiles. The motif of the First Bath of the Child, with an evident baptismal reference, was especially disseminated in Byzantine art on the basis of the counterfeit "Protoevangelium" of Saint James. An aspect peculiar to Byzantine fine art is the inclusion of the scene of the Glad Tidings to the Shepherds, constitute in representations of the Nascence starting in the tenth century.
The painting was the 2d of seven scenes (
Miklós Boskovits (1935–2011)
March 21, 2016
Inscription
left section, on the whorl of Isaiah: ECCE VIR / Become CONCI / PIET [et] PA / RIET FILIU[K] / [et] VOCABI / TUR NOM / EN EIUS / [E]MANUE[Fifty] (Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his proper name shall be called Immanuel; from Isaiah 7:14); middle section, on the ringlet of the announcing angel: A[nnunti]o / Vobis / Gaudiu[m] / Magnu[chiliad] (Behold, I bring you tidings of cracking joy; variant of Luke 2:ten); right department, on the coil of Ezekial: VIDI PORTA[Thou] / I[North] DOMO D[OMI]NI / CLAUSA[1000] / VIR / NO[N] TR[AN]SIBIT / P[ER] EA[M] DOM / IN[US] SOLUS / I[Due north]TRAT ET[?] / IT [?] P[ER] EA[M] (I saw a door in the house of the Lord which was closed and no man went through it. The Lord only enters and goes through information technology; variant of Ezekial 44:2)
Provenance
NGA 1937.ane.viii formed part of the front predella of Duccio's double-sided altarpiece the Maestà, which was in the course of execution by October 1308 and was placed on the high altar of the Cathedral of Siena on 30 June 1311;[1] the altarpiece was removed from the cathedral in 1506, first stored by the Cathedral authorities, and so later displayed on the wall of the left transept, close to the altar of Saint Sebastian, but probably past this time the predella and gable panels had already been separated from it;[two] the altarpiece was moved to the church of Sant'Ansano in 1777, where its 2 sides were separated and returned to the cathedral;[3] in 1798 the gables and viii panels of the predella were reported as existence kept in the sacristy of the cathedral, whereas the rest, including NGA 1937.1.8, must already accept been in private hands.[4] probably with Charles Fairfax Murray [1849-1919], London and Florence, in the early 1880s,[5] who seems to have been the seller, in 1884, to the Gemäldegalerie der Königliche Museen, Berlin; deaccessioned 1937[vi] and exchanged with (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[seven] purchased 26 April 1937 past The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[eight] gift 1937 to NGA.
Technical Summary
This is one of the few early on Italian panels in the collection that has not been
The NGA scientific research section analyzed the wood using cross-sectional microscopy, and it was determined to exist poplar (run into report dated January 31, 1989, in NGA conservation files).
Infrared reflectography was performed with a Hamamatsu c/thousand-03 Vidicon camera fitted with a lead sulphide tube and a Kodak Wratten 87A filter.
A photo taken in or soon before 1885
Reproduced in Eduard Dobbert, "Duccio's Bild Die Geburt Christi in der Königlichen Gemälde-Galerie zu Berlin," Jahrbuch der Preußischen Kunstsammlungen 6 (1885): 158 – 159.
On this treatment, meet Helmut Ruhemann, The Cleaning of Paintings: Problems and Potentialities (London, 1968), 41. The aforementioned restorer noted that on seeing the painting over again in 1952, it looked "finished" with "invisible retouchings." The testify of an old photograph in the photographic annal of the Kunsthistorisches Establish in Florence suggests that a partial cleaning of the panel may have occurred sometime before Ruhemann's.
A telegram dated Apr 6, 1937, recorded in the Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Enquiry Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: reel 92, box 237, folder 23, stated, "flick cleaned off several years ago by Dr. Friedlander."
William Suhr archives at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (notes in NGA conservation and curatorial files). This handling was probably accomplished in 1937, because a telegram dated April six, 1937, in Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Inquiry Found, Los Angeles: reel 92, box 237, folder 23, stated, "Absolutely cannot be shown its present state although no important parts missing however much small particular piece of work necessary go proper outcome," and another telegram dated May 7, 1937, stated, "Duccio marvelous perfectly exquisite color enchanting very happy with it far superior Benson Duccios."
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- 1885
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- 1885
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- 1890
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- 1937
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- 1941
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- 1941
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- 1941
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- 1942
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- 1946
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- 1949
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- 1951
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- 1957
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- 1959
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Early on Italian Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Three in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Fine art, Washington, D.C.): 14, color repro.
- 1960
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- 1962
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- 1973
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- 1974
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- 1975
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- 1979
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- 2016
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