The Visitation

Manzuoli, Tommaso (Maso da San Friano) (painter)

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Title/s

The Visitation

Maker/s

Manzuoli, Tommaso (Maso da San Friano) (painter) [ULAN info: Italian artist, 1536-1571]

Category

painting

Name

painting

School/Style

Italian

Florentine School

Technique Description

tempera on panel

Dimensions

height: 408.8 cm
width: 248.6 cm

Date

1560

Provenance

given: Hope, Henry Thomas 1859 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

Church of S. Pier Maggiore, Florence, destroyed 1783; moved to Rome, Vatican Gallery; Earl of Berwick, Attingham Park sale at House; John Robins, London, by 1829; Christie's anon. sale (= J. Robins), London, 11 April 1835 (I), bt. Hope; on loan since 1955 to Trinity Hall, Cambridge (Chapel altarpiece)

Inscriptions/Marks

1. monogram
   Position: on the end of the keg, beneath the beggar's knees
   Content: TM
   
2. date
   Position: on the end of the keg, beneath the beggar's knees
   Content: F F/MDLX
   

Documentation

1. (2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 37]
2. Earp, F.R. (1902) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.) [page: 124]
3. Goodison, J.W. (1967) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Italian School, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 93-94]
4. Cannon-Brooke, P. 'A Madonna and Child by Maso da San Friano', [page: 346-9]
   Source title: Apollo (November 1970)
5. Freedberg, S.J. (1971) Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, : Pelican History of Art [page: 321]

Accession Number

496 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 510; Input Date: 1999-12-10 / Last Edit: 2010-01-19)