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    Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, Saint Cecilia, and Angels
    Piero di Cosimo. Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, Saint Cecilia, and Angels, c. 1505. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001661

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    Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, Saint Cecilia, and Angels

    by Piero di Cosimo

    Provenance

    Private collection, Scotland; acquired by Madame Miriam Gilou-Cendrars and her husband, Albert Gilou, early 1930s; Gilou-Cendrars collection, France; sold Roubaix, France, J. Mercier, J. Velliet, D. Thullier, F. Issaly, June 18, 1989, lot 84; bought by Richard L. Feigen Co., New York; sold to the Art Institute, 2007.

    Exhibition history

    Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, July 2001–March 2003 Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Piero di Cossimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florance, February 1-May 3, 2015, cat. 27; Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, June 23-September 27, 2015.

    Publications

    Mina Bacci, Piero di Cosimo (Milan: Bramante Editrice, 1966), p. 90, no. 32, ill. Francesco Abbate, “Scelta di libri: Piero di Cosimo di Mina Bacci,” Paragone, no. 215 (January 1968), p. 77. Mina Bacci, L’Opera completa di Piero di Cosimo (Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1976), p. 100, no. 70, ill. Geraldine Norman, “Marché: Les Maîtres Anciens en haut de la vague,” Connaissance des Arts, no. 451 (September 1989), pp. 20-21, ill. Sharon Fermor, Piero di Cosimo. Fiction, invention, and ‘fantasìa’ (London: Reaktion Books, 1993), pp. 140, 145, 216, nn. 26-27 (ill. in color). Anna Forlani Tempesti and Elena Capretti, Piero di Cosimo. Catalogo completo (Florence: Octavo, 1996), p. 119, no. 29, ill. Roberta J.M. Olson, The Florentine Tondo (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 98, 252–53, fig. A48. Elena Capretti, “Piero di Cosimo: un’opera ritrovata: II. Il dipinto, ” Arte Cristiana, vol. 90, no. 808 (January/February 2002), p. 28, n. 7. Dennis Geronimus, The Painting Career of Piero di Cosimo, 1462-1522, Doctoral Thesis, Oxford University, 2000, vol. 1, pp. 171–72; vol. 2, p. 29, fig. 60. Dennis Geronimus, Piero di Cosimo: Visions Beautiful and Strange (New Haven: Yale University Press), 2006, pp. 258–62, 339–40, fig. 202. Larry J. Feinberg, "Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 34, no. 1 (2008), p. 56, ill. p. 57. Maurizia Tazartes, Piero di Cosimo: 'ingegno astratto e difforme' (Florence: Mauro Pagliai, 2010), pp. 99–101, ill.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Piero di Cosimo (Italian, 1461/62–1521)
    Date
    c. 1505
    Medium
    Oil on panel
    Dimensions
    Diam.: 75 cm (29 9/16 in.); Framed: Diam.: 104.2 cm (41 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    sixteenth century
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Lacy Armour Fund
    Accession no.
    2007.77

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