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Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen
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Title:Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen
Artist:Neroccio de' Landi (Italian, Siena 1447–1500 Siena)
Date:ca. 1490
Medium:Tempera on wood
Dimensions:24 x 17 1/4 in. (61 x 43.8 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, by exchange, 1961
Object Number:61.43
Georg (II), Herzog von Saxe-Meiningen, Meiningen, Thuringia (by 1897–d. 1914); Bernhard (III), Herzog von Saxe-Meiningen, Meiningen (1914–d. 1928); Georg, Prinz von Saxe-Meiningen, Heldbourg, Thuringia (1928–29; sold to Douglas); [R. Langton Douglas, Dublin or London, 1929; sold to Duveen]; [Duveen, London and New York, 1929–36; sold to Kress]; Samuel H. Kress, New York (1936–39); National Gallery of Art, Washington (1939–60); Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York (1960–61)
Bernhard Berenson. The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance. reprinted 1903. New York, 1897, p. 156, as in Meiningen; attributes it to Neroccio and calls it "Holy Family". Italian painter Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi (1447–1500) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early-Renaissance or Quattrocento period in Siena. He was a student of Vecchietta, then he shared a studio with Francesco di Giorgio from 1468. He painted Scenes from the life of St Benedict, now in the Uffizi, probably in collaboration with di Giorgio, and Madonna and Child between Saint Jerome and Saint Bernard, which is in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Siena. In 1472 he painted an Assumption for the abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, and in 1475 created a statue of Saint Catherine of Siena for the Sienese church dedicated to her. He separated from di Giorgio in 1475. In 1476, he painted Madonna and Child with St Michael and St Bernardino, a triptych now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Siena. In 1483, he designed the Hellespontine Sybil for the mosaic pavement of the Cathedral of Siena, and the tomb for Bishop Tommaso Piccolomini del Testa. Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi was an Italian painter and sculptor of the Early Renaissance in Siena.
G[eorg]. Voss. Bau- und Kunst-Denkmäler Thüringens. Vol. 34, Herzogthum Sachsen-Meiningen. Jena, Germany, 1909, p. 168, ill. following p. 168.
Paul Schubring inAllgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler. Ed. Hans Vollmer. Vol. 22, Leipzig, 1928, p. 295.
Lionello Venturi. Italian Paintings in America. Vol. 2, Fifteenth Century Renaissance. New York, 1933, unpaginated, pl. 307.
Raimond van Marle. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. Vol. 16, The Hague, 1937, p. 302, fig. 168, dates it between 1480 and 1492; calls it similar to a "Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Catherine" formerly in the Cremer collection, Dortmund, and later with Duveen, New York.
Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941, unpaginated, no. 120, ill., dates it about 1480.
Preliminary Catalogue of Paint Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi
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Neroccio Di Bartolomeo De' Landi Biography
Painter and sculptor born in Siena in 1447 and died in the same city in 1500.
He trained under Vecchietta, whose workshop he took over in 1480, and associated himself with Francesco di Giorgio Martini until 1475.
All his production, characterized by great attention to detail, was mainly intended for smaller clients. Among his noteworthy sculptural works are the tomb of Bishop T. Piccolomini della Testa (Siena, Duomo) and the statue of Santa Caterina in the oratory of the same name in Siena.
In the pictorial production, discovered and highly appreciated by late nineteenth-century critics, we remember "the Annunciation" (New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery) from the years associated with Francesco di Giorgio, the triptych "Madonna with Child", "San Michele and San Bernardino” (1476), the “Madonna enthroned with Child and Saints” (1492) and the “Madonna with Child and Saints Dominic and Catherine” (circa 1492), preserved in the Art Gallery of Siena.
Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi (1447–1500) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early-Renaissance or Quattrocento period in Siena. By the mid 15th century, the glory days of Medieval Siena were long over. While its art from that period has been widely admired, the later painting of Renaissance period Siena has been largely ignored outside Italy.
This is in part because Siena was conquered by neighbouring Florence in the mid 16th century, with the art history of the region written by the victors and the achievements of Sienese artists overshadowed by its more powerful rival.
Neroccio di Landi was a student of Vecchietta, and then he shared a workshop with Francesco di Giorgio from 1468. He painted Scenes from the life of St Benedict, now in the Uffizi, probably in collaboration with di Giorgio, and a Madonna and Child between Saint Jerome and Saint Bernard, which is in the Pinacoteca of Siena. In 1472 he painted an Assumption for the abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, and in 1475 he created a statue of Saint Catherine of Siena for the Sienese church dedicated to her.
He separated from di Giorgio in 1475. In 1483, he designed the Hellespontine Sybil for the mosaic pavement of the Cathedral of Siena, and the tomb for the Bishop Tommaso Piccolomini del Testa.
Neroccio de' Landi, stemming from a distinguished patrician family, seems to have wanted throughout his life to express the nobility of the human face and the elegance of gestures and attitudes in his paintings. He did not make use of many innovations of the first half of the 15th century, and in fact one has the impression as if Neroccio, forgetting about his direct artistic antecedents, had intended to reach back to traditions of the previous century. And yet in fact he knew and employed the devices of perspective and used light and shadow in the modelling of his figures, but he was less int