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‘Una Pieta chon molte figure’: Sandro Botticelli’s altarpiece for the Florentine church of S. Paolino

08/2015 | 1349 | 157

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Author:

Röstel, Alexander (Röstel, Alexander )

Subjects

artists:

Botticelli, Sandro

buildings:

San Paolino, Florence, Italy

dates:

1480-1489 / 1490-1499

museums and institutions:

Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

places:

Florence

subjects:

Italian painting / Collections, Public / Altarpieces / Mary, Virgin: Pietà / Acquisitions / Inventories / Patronage / Documents

subjects:

Florentine

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Pietà, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1489-94 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)

Attributed works:

3. Triptych of The Crucifixion with the Virgin and St Francis; St John the Baptist and St Mary Magdalene (the Valori altarpiece), by Filippino Lippi. c.1497-1500 (Main panel formerly Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, destroyed; wings Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence)

Attributed works:

4. Hypothetical reconstruction of the high altarpiece of S. Paolino based on the interpretation of Giovanni di Domenico's inventory and comparative examples (Reconstruction by the author; illustration by Matilde Grimaldi)

Attributed works:

5. Triptych of The Sudarium borne by angels; Christ and the woman of Samaria; Noli me tangere, by the Master of the St Ursula Legend (central panel) and Filippino Lippi (wings). c.1490 (Seminario Patriarcale, Pinacoteca Manfrediana, Venice)

Attributed works:

6. Pair of altarpiece wings of the Archangel Gabriel and Virgin Annunciate, by Sandro Botticelli, c.1490-1500 (Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow)

Attributed works:

7. Pietà, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1495-1500 (Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan)

Western art unattributed:

2. Masini coat of arms, from Raccolta Ceramelli Papiani, fasc.3075 (Archivio di Stato, Florence)

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