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Madonna and Child

c. 1475–1480

Francesco Botticini

(Italian, c. 1446–1497)
Italy, Florence, 15th century
tempera on poplar panel
Painted surface: 64.6 x 45 cm (25 7/16 x 17 11/16 in.); Panel: 67.2 x 46 cm (26 7/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
Holden Collection 1916.788
Location: 117A Italian Renaissance

Description

Francesco di Giovanni Botticini came from a family of painters. His father, Giovanni di Domenico, and his son, Raffaello, were also painters. Little is known of his life or career. He is believed to have apprenticed under Neri de Bicci. The earliest dated altarpiece by his hand is 1471 (now in the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris).
  • James Jackson Jarves (1884); Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland
  • Berenson, Bernard. Florentine Pictures of the Renaissance. New York: G. P. Putnam's & Sons, 1909. p. 119. archive.org
    Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932. p. 107.
    Berenson, Bernard. Pitture Italiane Del Rinascimento; Catalogo Dei Principali Artisti E Delle Loro Opere, Con Un Indice Dei Luoghi. Translated by Emilio Cecchi. Milano: U. Hoepli, 1936. p. 92.
    Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places: Florentine School. Vol. 1. London: Phaidon Press, 1963. p. 39.
    Fredericksen, Burton B. and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. p. 573.
    Hendy, Philip. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1974. p. 45.
    Venturini, Lisa. Francesco Botticini. Firenze: EDIFIR, 1994. p. 110, cat. 27, fig. 31.
    Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917. Mentioned: p. 14-15, cat. no. 6; Reproduced: p. 51, No. 6 archive.org
    G. U. "The Holden Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 19-34. Mentioned: p. 19; reproduced: Front Matter www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 23 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 27 archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Reproduced: fig. 21, p. 57 - 58
  • Boston Foreign Art Exhibition, 1883-1884, no. 13
    The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
    CMA Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1936, cat. no. 77
    Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
    Inaugural Exhibition, Cleveland Museum of Art, June 6- Sept. 20, 1916, no. 6
    Early Italian Painting lent by Mrs. Liberty Emery Holden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1912, no. 4.
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