Virgin Reliquaries
Appearance
The Virgin Reliquaries are four 1434 panel paintings by Fra Giovanni Masi after drawings by Fra Angelico, intended as tabernacle-reliquaries for the Convent of Santa Maria Novella.[1] One is in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (Death and Assumption of the Virgin[2]) whilst the rest are in the Museo nazionale di San Marco in Florence.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ (in Italian) John Pope-Hennessy, Beato Angelico, Scala, Firenze 1981.
- ^ (in Italian) Guido Cornini, Beato Angelico, Giunti, Firenze 2000 ISBN 88-09-01602-5
- ^ "Catalogue entry" (in Italian).
Categories:
- Paintings of the Assumption of the Virgin
- Paintings of the Coronation of the Virgin
- Paintings by Fra Angelico
- Paintings in the Museo Nazionale di San Marco
- Paintings of the Lamentation of Christ
- Paintings of the Madonna and Child
- Paintings of the Adoration of the Magi
- Paintings of the Annunciation
- Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- 1434 paintings