MAKE A MEME View Large Image Neri di Bicci - The Coronation of the Virgin with Angels and Four Saints - Walters 37675.jpg On this altarpiece Christ places a crown upon the head of his kneeling mother the Virgin Mary an act symbolic of their status as King and Queen of ...
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Keywords: Neri di Bicci - The Coronation of the Virgin with Angels and Four Saints - Walters 37675.jpg On this altarpiece Christ places a crown upon the head of his kneeling mother the Virgin Mary an act symbolic of their status as King and Queen of Heaven The golden circle surrounding the couple has been engraved with different tools This ornament suggests the music of the heavenly spheres the movement of the planets believed to produce harmonies which could not be heard by humans Around the circle is a host of worshiping angels; below are Sts John the Baptist perhaps Augustine and his mother Monica and Nicholas of Bari At the bottom of the panel in the center angels kneel on either side of a painted tabernacle depicting the Crucifixion This section was cut and hinged to provide a recess in the altarpiece that may have housed the consecrated Host for use in the Mass For more information on this altarpiece please see Zeri catalogue number 54 pp 87-89 ca 1470 1475 Renaissance tempera and gold leaf on panel Painted surface cm 205 7 201 6 3 2 ; Framed cm 215 3 215 9 20 3 accession number 37 675 35571 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome prior to 1897 mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 92 as Neri di Bicci Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Transcription In scroll held by John the Baptist ECCE AGNIVS place of origin Florence Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Neri di Bicci Paintings in the Walters Art Museum 15th-century paintings of Coronation of Mary 15th-century donor portraits with Madonna Donor portraits with Coronation of Virgin
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