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40 Panel, dimensions unknown. The only reproduction 46 Thus still in Lucco 1989, p. 347.
is provided by De Marchi 1987, fig. 9.
47 Lanzi 1789, 1970 ed., II, p. 14: ‘Il figlio salì in
41 Panel, 128 x 86 cm. See De Marchi 1997, pp.11-13, maggiore celebrità. Comincia a conoscersi fin dal
fig. 43. 1401 per una tavola a San Cassiano di Pesaro; nella
qual città ne trovai un’altra del 1409, entrambe
42 Venezia, Gallerie dell’Accademia, inv. 14, 119 x 75 sottoscritte: Iacometto de Flor’. For a proposal
cm (central panel), 119 x 40 cm (laterals). See regarding this second group of panels, see below.
Moschini Marconi 1955, pp. 18-19 no. 16; and
Pallucchini 1964, p. 212, fig. 656. 48 The first reference to this important painting
appears in Abati Olivieri 1777, pp. 34-35. The
43 For Federico Zeri, too (who kept photographs of history of its ownership after it was removed from
the Matthiesen Crucifixion in both the Jacopo di its original site in the Napoleonic period should be
Paolo folder and in another, entitled ‘Pseudo- rewritten after consulting the notes made by
Avanzi’), the painting in the Accademia was the Federico Zeri on the back of the photographs he
starting-point for the reconstruction of a group of owned (Bologna, Fondazione Federico Zeri), which
stylistically similar works that included the two are also useful for an awareness of its condition
Stories of the Passion in the Vatican Picture Gallery prior to substantial conservation treatment.
and the Virgin of Humility in the High Museum, Entirely reworked areas include the gold
Atlanta (Bologna, Fondazione Federico Zeri, background, the wood frame, and the inscription
‘Maestro del trittico n. 14 di Venezia’ folder). along the base, obviously taken from another part
of the triptych or from eighteenth-century sources;
44 Having reached this point, it seems worth listing heavy-handed treatment was also given to the
scholarly attributions to the Master of the picture surface, as for instance in the entirely
Giovanelli Madonna, including the latest research. I modern look of the Christ Child. It was listed as
am grateful to Cristina Guarnieri for her part of the Roman collection of the Rev. Robert J.
collaboration on this list. Nevin and appeared in his posthumous sale at the
auctioneer Sangiorgi in Rome on 24 April 1907 (lot
45 Fogolari 1944, pp. 37, 48 doc. I. This document had 221, as ‘Scuola veneziana’ - Nevin died in 1906): if
escaped the notice of modern literature and was this is true it casts serious doubt on its supposed
recently pointed out by Franco 2000, p. 81 note 26. presence in the Greek Royal Collection until 1909,
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