The Frick Collection
Cimabue and Early Italian Devotional Painting
 
Dossier Exhibition
 

Cimabue and Early Italian Devotional Painting
October 3 through December 31, 2006

 

Cenni di Pepo (c. 1240 – c. 1302),
known as Cimabue
Florentine, c. 1240–1302
The Flagellation of Christ, c. 1280
Tempera on poplar panel
9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (24.7 x 20 cm)
The Frick Collection, New York


  Cimabue
The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, c. 1280
Tempera on poplar panel
10 x 8 in. (25.7 x 20.5 cm)
National Gallery, London


 

Pacino di Bonaguida
Florentine, active c. 1303 – 1330
St. John on Patmos, Virgin and Child Enthroned, Death of the Virgin, Crucifixion with Saints (left panel),
c. 1310
Tempera on panel
Left panel 24 3/8 x 16 in.
(61.9 x 40.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Irma N. Straus, Photograph © 1993 The Metropolitan Museum of Art


 

Pacino di Bonaguida
St. John on Patmos, Virgin and Child Enthroned, Death of the Virgin, Crucifixion with Saints (right panel), c. 1310
Tempera on panel
Right panel 24 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.
(61.9 x 40 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Irma N. Straus, Photograph © 1993 The Metropolitan Museum of Art


 

Magdalen Master
Florentine, active c. 1265 – 1295
The Virgin and Child and Scenes from the Passion, c. 1280
Tempera and gold on panel
Central panel 16 x 11 1/8 in. (40.6 x 28.3 cm), left panel 15 x 5 5/8 in. (38.1 x 14.3 cm), right panel 15 x 5 1/2 in. (38.1 x 14 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941 (41.100.8), Photograph © 2004 The Metropolitan Museum of Art


 

Umbrian artist
Reliquary Diptych with Nativity and Crucifixion, c. 1320
Verre églomisé, paint, and wood
Each panel 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.
(17.1 x 22.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, Photograph © 2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art


 

Pacino di Bonaguida
Scenes from the Life of Christ (Mocking), c. 1320
Tempera and gold leaf on parchment
9 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (24.5 x 17.6 cm)
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, MS M.643


 

Pacino di Bonaguida
Scenes from the Life of Christ (Flagellation), c. 1320
Tempera and gold leaf on parchment
9 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (24.5 x 17.6 cm)
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, MS M.643


 

Pacino di Bonaguida
Scenes from the Life of Christ (Crucifixion), c. 1320
Tempera and gold leaf on parchment
9 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (24.5 x 17.6 cm)
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, MS M.643


 

Pacino di Bonaguida
Scenes from the Life of Christ (Lamentation), c. 1320
Tempera and gold leaf on parchment
9 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (24.5 x 17.6 cm)
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, MS M.643



Cimabue and Early Italian Devotional Painting was coordinated for The Frick Collection by Holly Flora, Curator, Museum of Biblical Art, in conjunction with the Frick’s Associate Curator Denise Allen. The exhibition has been generously underwritten by Jon and Barbara Landau. Additional support has been provided by The Council of The Frick Collection and The Helen Clay Frick Foundation. The accompanying publication is made possible, in part, by Lawrence and Julie Salander.