This painting — of exceptional beauty and importance — is one of only two that can be confidently assigned to him on the basis of comparison with a signed crucifix.
Berlinghiero was always open to Byzantine influence, and this Madonna is of the Byzantine type known as the Hodegetria, in which the Madonna points to the Child as the way to salvation.
Дар Страус И.Н., 1960.
Gift of Irma N. Straus, 1960.
автор:
Берлингиери Б.
Bonaventura Berlinghieri
перемещение:
Italo, Florence
[Elia Volpi, Florence; sale, American Art Association, New York, March 31, 1927, no. 376, for $8,000]
Нью-Йорк
New York
перемещение:
Jesse Isidor Straus (1927 - 36)
Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus (1936 - 60)
Метрополитен (1960 )
MMA
композиция:
The composition conforms to an ancient Byzantine type known as the Hodegetria— "she who shows the way".
