These paintings are still strongly indebted to the classicizing aspirations of the Palaeologan Renaissance. Russia is losing around 150 tanks a month in Ukraine, according to an analysis by open source intelligence platform Oryx. The term gothic is applied to western European painting of the 13th century to the early 15th century. The upper part of the painted area terminates in a mixtilinear arch placed within an ogival arch with crocketed ornament. See Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 29, 250, fig. According to the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department , Cail, 42, was found unresponsive . Contact with Byzantine art was close in the early 13th century, but after c. 1250 survived principally in the Holy Roman Empire and Italy. No evidence has yet been found of other panels with which it might have belonged. Cf. 1] [fig. It was released as the band's second single and was later included on their only studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.The song was released during Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee in 1977.. also notes 9 and 19 above. . The Agnew stockbooks record the painting as no. Nonetheless, the catalogue of the sculptors estate sale, Collezione del fu Comm. Cf. Now much damaged, it was rightly restored to the young Paolo Veneziano (Venetian, active 1333 - 1358) by Andrea De Marchi (2004) with a dating to the early third decade. Maddalena was named by the sixteenth-century art biographer Vasari as the patron of Raphael's Coronation of the Virgin, painted for the Oddi Chapel in S. Francesco al Prato, Perugia, in about 1503-4, and now in the Vatican Pinacoteca. Francesca Flores dArcais and Giovanni Gentili (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, 2002), 118; Viktorija Markova, Italija: Sobranie ivopisi, vol. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2111. The great Umbrian master Pietro Perugino was executing the frescoes in the Collegio del Cambio at Perugia between 1498 and 1500, enabling Raphael, as a member of his workshop, to, In The Coronation of the Virgin (163536) the solemnity and dignity of the holy persons are set off by their voluminous colourful robes in a composition of exceptional splendour specially fitting for a painting of the Queen of Heaven made to adorn the oratory of the. [22] [22]Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 5960 and figs. See Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed.. It has lost 1,779 tanks since February 2022, Oryx reported. . [2] Michelangelo Muraro, Paolo da Venezia, Milano, 1969: 157, transmits the reported provenance of the painting from the Broglio collection, annotated on a photograph in the photographic archive of the Biblioteca Berenson at the Villa I Tatti, Florence. An iconographicIconography, or Iconology Terms that refer broadly to the study of subjects and themes in works of art. J.E.A. Kroesen and Victor Michael Schmidt (Turnhout, 2009), 63. [4] [4]Photograph in the NGA conservation files. See Sergio Bettini, I mosaici dellatrio di San Marco e il loro seguito, Arte veneta 8 (1954): 724; Italo Furlan, in Il Trecento adriatico: Paolo Veneziano e la pittura tra Oriente e Occidente, ed. [1] [1]The NGA scientific research department identified the wood (see report dated May 30, 1989, in NGA conservation files). 2] Master of the Washington Coronation. The results of the masters activity in the 1310s, or slightly before, are probably the Crucifixion in the Serbian Orthodox church of Split (Spalato);[16] [16]Published by Kruno Prijatelk, Nota su una Crocifissione vicina a Paolo Veneziano a Split (Spalato), Arte veneta 40 (1986): 148150, the painting was restored to the Master of Caorle by Mauro Lucco, Maestro di Caorle, in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, ed. Her mantle and Jesuss robe are painted with gold lines to indicate folds. 2] Archival photograph, pre-1953, Master of the Washington Coronation, The Coronation of the Virgin, 1324, tempera on poplar, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection, made before the 1953 treatment, proves that in the meantime the painting was probably treated. The "crown" of Mary has been mentioned since the 6th century, as "corona virginum" (crown of virgins). (Entry fig. By the 15th century, more individual interpretations are found. The feast was formerly celebrated on May 31, at the end of the Marian month, where the present general calendar now commemorates the Feast of the Visitation. Edward B. Garrison, Published as a work of the Veneto-Byzantine school of the 14th century by Ettore Merkel, Isole del nord della Laguna,, The neo-Hellenistic tendency, attested in the field of monumental painting by the frescoes of Sopoani, is also exemplified by various icons in the collection of the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, or by the miniatures in the. 1592. Mauro Lucco, 2 vols. Mauro Lucco, 2 vols. What remains of the important cycle of frescoes in the church of San Zan Degol in Venice probably belongs to a slightly earlier phase in the masters career, to the years around the turn of the century. Other known works of Paolos are dated 1333, 1347, and 1353. 1, VIIIXVIvekov (Moscow, 2002), 4143. Christs crowning of his mother beneath the effulgence of the Holy Ghost is a, of San Pedro is the Coronation of the Virgin. [3] The crown has several meanings in secular depictions. The altarpiece was never officially prescribed by the Church, but it did perform a prescribed function alternatively carried out by a simple inscription on the altarblock: to declare to which saint or mystery the altar was dedicated. (New York, 1996), 20:784; Robert Gibbs, Paolo Veneziano, in The Dictionary of Art, ed. Mary is sometimes shown, in both Eastern and Western Christian art, being crowned by one or two angels, but this is considered a different subject. Yet, the painting also has a strongly Byzantine character. . Cf. Cf. XlVe-XVe-XVIe siecles," unpublished thesis, University de Gen&ve, 1984). [1] On the life and career of the sculptor Dal Zotto see Livia Alberton Vinco da Sesso, "Antonio dal Zotto," in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, 77 vols., Rome, 1960-: 32(1986): 285287. The life of the Virgin. Jane Turner, 34 vols. Cf. 1, Le vetrate dellUmbria (Rome, 1973), 136; Lucio Grossato, ed., Da Giotto al Mantegna (Milan, 1974), no. Who was the Master of the Washington Coronation? [18] [18]Published as a work of the Veneto-Byzantine school of the 14th century by Ettore Merkel, Isole del nord della Laguna, Quaderni della Soprintendenza ai beni artistici e storici di Venezia 14 (1986): 159160, the panel was reassigned to the Master of Caorle by the present writer. 2] Master of the Washington Coronation, Two Apostles and the Prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel (? The gold striations that define the figures robes, the flat gold background, and the almost abstract way that colors and shapes fill the field might have been copied from a Byzantine icon. Usually ascribed to Paolo Veneziano,[13] [13]On the panel now at Vodnjan, Blessed Leone Bembo with a Donor, Angels, and Four Stories of His Life, cf. Christies, Rome, May 20, 1974, lot. Copies of the Knoedler bill and sale record are in NGA curatorial files. Subsequently, only Viktor Lazarev, at least in a first publication dating to 1931, preferred to leave the painting in anonymity, while other art historians, until 1965, remained convinced of Paolos authorship. Coronation of the Virgin Depicts same location Saint Anne 'Metterza' Uses same medium Coronation of the Virgin From same collection Altarpiece of St Lucia de' Magnoli From related movement. In my view, the Vodnjan panel belongs to the catalog of the Master of the Washington Coronation. 880; negative now with Osvaldo Bhm in Venice) is not listed in the catalogs of the photographer Carlo Naya (18161882) that I have been able to consult. On paintings by Tuscan artists in which Christ crowns Mary generally with both hands, cf. The Coronation of the Virgin in Washington originally must have formed part of a larger complex. Christies, Rome, May 20, 1974, lot. Another panel that retains its upper Crucifixion is the small altarpiece in the Galleria Nazionale in Parma, on which see Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), figs. The Coronation Chair, which dates back to the year 1300, will be cleaned and stabilized by Westminster Abbey's paintings conservator in preparation for the May 6 coronation Davide Banzato and Franca Pellegrini (Rome, 1989), 7779; Francesca Flores dArcais, Venezia, in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, ed. According to Pallucchini, the panel in question is a work by Paolo Veneziano dating to c.1330 and must have originally formed part of the predella of a now disassembled polyptych. Rodolfo Pallucchini (1964) published the panel, citing its provenance as the collection of the art historian Detlev von Hadeln (18781935) in Florence and its size as 26 90 cm. . Hans Belting (Bologna, 1982), 10 n.20; Marvin Eisenberg, Lorenzo Monaco (Princeton, 1989), 61 n.83; Filippo Pedrocco, Paolo Veneziano (Milan and Venice, 2003), 213. However, the Catalogo generale dei quadri e affreschi esistenti nelle chiese di Venezia published by his firm in 1900 listed negatives numbered above 2000, so the one cited here presumably had been executed some years earlier. 141). 5. Image: bpk, Berlin/Pushkin Museum, Moscow/Roman Beniaminson/Art Resource, NY in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow[21] [21]Published by Viktor Nikiti Lazarev, Saggi sulla pittura veneziana dei secoli XIIIXIV: La maniera greca e il problema della scuola cretese, Arte veneta 19 (1965): 2325, as the work of an anonymous Venetian master dating to c.13101315, it was restored to the Master of the Washington Coronation by Michelangelo Muraro, Paolo da Venezia (Milan, 1969), 125. Export from an artist page includes image if available, biography, notes, and bibliography. Michelangelo Muraro (1969) accepted that proposal, although he did not exclude the alternative suggestion that the four figures originally belonged to una piccola iconostasi (a small iconostasis). at the end of the thirteenth century), the San Zan Degol frescoes were interpreted as an announcement of the art of Paolo Veneziano by Michelangelo Muraro, Antichi affreschi veneziani, in Le meraviglie del passato (Verona, 1954), 688. As found in polyptych no. Color reproductions in the reconstruction indicate panels in the National Gallery of Art collection. The Holy Ghost, appears above them in the form of a dove, occupying the upper vertex of a rhombus formed by the four figures. The historic Coronation Chair on which Henry VIII and other monarchs of England and later Britain have been crowned for some 700 years is getting a makeover ahead of this year's ceremony for King Charles, London's Westminster Abbey said. In The Coronation of the Virgin (1635-36) the solemnity and dignity of the holy persons are set off by their voluminous colourful robes in a composition of exceptional splendour specially fitting for a painting of the Queen of Heaven made to adorn the oratory of the Read More Cf. To this small group a number of other works can, in my view, be added. The earliest work by Angelico that can be dated with certainty, Bellinis great Coronation of the Virgin at Pesaro, for example, might have reflected some of the compositional elements of Pieros lost Coronation of the Virgin, painted as the central panel of a polyptych. The x-radiographsX-radiography A photographic or digital image analysis method that visually records an object's ability to absorb or transmit x-rays. See Francesca Flores dArcais, Venezia, in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, ed. This enormous ensemble, measuring about 510 450 cm (200 175 inches, or more than 16 14 feet), features the frequently. Duccio designed a circular stained glass window showing the death, assumption and coronation of the Virgin. Travi (1994) then categorically affirmed the common authorship of the frescoes and the group of paintings formerly combined with the Washington Coronation under the conventional name of the Master of Caorle. Art historians now generally agree on the need to exclude his works from the catalog of Paolo Veneziano, to whom they were almost unanimously attributed for some thirty years, beginning with Giuseppe Fiocco (19301931), and to whom the Gallery (1985), Francesca Zava Boccazzi (1993), and John Oliver Hand (2004) continued to attribute the Coronation in Washington. In addition, there are Canonical coronations authorized by the Pope which are given to specific Marian images venerated in a particular place. The five small panels with stories of the Virgin in the Museo Civico in Pesaro probably come from a similar polyptych. . The arched area over the throne comes to a point, and is carved with leaves around the arch. (Milan, 1992), 1:29, 32, 34; Filippo Pedrocco, Paolo Veneziano (Milan and Venice, 2003), 213; Mikls Boskovits, Paolo Veneziano: Riflessioni sul percorso, 1, Arte cristiana 97 (2009): 88 n.21. The record's lyrics, as well as the cover, were controversial at the time; both the British . b. The motif of the star-studded celestial sphere is also present in the antependium of Krk and the fresco of Gemona cited in the previous note. This majestic picturea window onto heavenwas painted for Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini (1571-1621) following the artist's arrival in Rome in 1595. The early gothic style overlapped chronologically with Romanesque and flourished after the onset of Renaissance art in Italy and elsewhere. Carla Travi, Il Maestro del trittico di Santa Chiara: Appunti per la pittura veneta di primo Trecento,, See Andrea De Marchi, La prima decorazione della chiesa francescana, in, Published by Kruno Prijatelk, Nota su una Crocifissione vicina a Paolo Veneziano a Split (Spalato),. In 1442 Lippi had been made rector of the church of San Quirico at Legnaia. I str. God the Father and God the Son are represented as identical youthful bearded males while the Holy Spirit appears as a dove that hovers between them. The Latin text there, adapted from the Song of Songs, reads: Tota pulchra es, amica mea, veni conoravi. You can copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes. 2] [fig. 144 and 183. The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin is also a subject of devotion throughout Christianity. and the fragment of a Crucifixion that surfaced at an auction sale in Rome in 1974, but which has since gone untraced. The same scholar (1966) further explained that it was Muraro who had convinced him in the course of a conversation that the painting in the National Gallery of Art should be excluded from Paolos catalog. However, the. Fra Angelico with a larger court setting, 1430-1431, German 15th-century version with donors, Master of the Life of the Virgin, Filippo Lippi (1467-1469); apse of the cathedral of Spoleto, Botticelli, with only God the Father in evidence, 1490-1492, Swedish 15th-century altarpiece in carved and painted wood (Kllunge Church), Conventional depiction of the Trinity, with Christ showing the wounds of his Passion, Enguerrand Quarton with Christ and God the Father as identical figures, as specified by the cleric who commissioned the work, Page from Book of Hours, with three human figures for the Trinity, Jean Fouquet, also with three human figures, in this case three identical depictions of Jesus, Albrecht Drer combines the subject with an Assumption, Attributed to Amaro do Vale[pt], c. 1615-1619, Banner of the Irish Catholic Confederation (16421652). Francesca Flores dArcais and Giovanni Gentili (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, 2002), 144; Grgo Gamulin, The Painted Crucifixes in Croatia (Zagreb, 1983), 120 and pl. The motif of the star-studded celestial sphere is also present in the antependium of Krk and the fresco of Gemona cited in the previous note. and comm. In fact the lost laterals of the Coronation, to judge from the still intact polyptychs of Paolo Venezianos earliest phase (such as the altarpiece in Krk and the polyptych of Santa Chiara now in the Accademia in Venice), must have been only slightly broader than the centerpiece. (Rome, 1998), 9:157; Francesca Flores dArcais, in Il Trecento adriatico: Paolo Veneziano e la pittura tra Oriente e Occidente, eds. An investigation has been launched into the mysterious death of ex-American collegiate swimmer Jamie Cail. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed.. Cf. (Milan, 1986), 2:648; Mauro Lucco, Maestro dellIncoronazione della Vergine di Washington, in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, ed. 3, vol. De Marchi (206) dated the frescoed decoration of the church in Verona to the early 1320s, in a period in cui il giovanissimo Paolo sembra muoversi ancora sotto tutela del Maestro dellIncoronazione del 1324, forse suo padre Martino (in which the very young Paolo seems still to be moving under the tutelage of the Master of the 1324 Coronation, perhaps his father Martino). Enrico Castelnuovo, 2 vols. The artist used green underpaintUnderpainting An initial layer of paint applied to a ground that begins to define shapes and values. Iconology, which is based on the results of iconography, is the more wide-ranging and comprehensive. Cf. [20] [20]The neo-Hellenistic tendency, attested in the field of monumental painting by the frescoes of Sopoani, is also exemplified by various icons in the collection of the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, or by the miniatures in the Prophet Book of the Biblioteca Vaticana (Vat. According to Pallucchini, the panel in question is a work by Paolo Veneziano dating to c.1330 and must have originally formed part of the predella of a now disassembled polyptych. See Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 19 and figs. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 2224, figs. The Coronation of the Virgin Learn more about our exhibitions, news, programs, and special offers. Each looks across toward the others, and they wear robes of rose pink, lapis blue, or forest green. Photograph in the NGA conservation files. Michelangelo Muraro (1969) accepted that proposal, although he did not exclude the alternative suggestion that the four figures originally belonged to una piccola iconostasi (a small iconostasis). "God Save the Queen" is a song by the English punk rock band the Sex Pistols. Read our full Open Access policy for images Venice had close ties to Byzantium, starting in the sixth century, and enjoyed a virtual monopoly on trade with the East. The Coronation of the Virgin as Queen of Heaven is not described in the Bible.In narrative sequences it is usually placed after her Assumption.. But the alternative proposal by Michelangelo Muraro (1965, 1969), who placed the Washington panel at the center of his reconstruction of the oeuvre of an artist he considered the stylistic precursor and perhaps even the elder brother of Paolo, has met with increasing consent since the latter decades of the twentieth century. They all have long, wavy, blond hair except for the woman, Mary, whose head is covered. The half moon has a shell design at the center and is painted with gold stars against a cobalt-blue background along the top, curving edge. His hair falls around his shoulders, and he wears a gold-trimmed, buttercup-yellow robe under a lapis-blue cloak that wraps over one shoulder and across his lap. 141) in the National Museum in Belgrade, classifying them as works of a predecessor, perhaps even the master, of Paolo Veneziano. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed.. The scene is the final episode in the Life of the Virgin, and follows her Assumption not yet dogma in the Middle Ages or Dormition. Carlo Bertelli, Il millennio ambrosiano (Milan, 1989), 67 n.68; Carla Travi, Su una recente storia della pittura del Veneto nel Trecento, Arte cristiana 82 (1994): 71. the panel provides further evidence of the essential stylistic continuity between the manner of Paolo and that of the older master. Reconstruction of a dispersed polyptych by the Master of the Washington Coronation: a. Grove Art Oxford University Press groundGround The layer or layers used to prepare the support to hold the paint., apparently without the help of a preparatory underdrawingUnderdrawing A drawing executed on a ground before paint is applied.. [1] Dr. J. Carl [or Carlo?] Mary usually is represented seated on the same throne as her son and to his right as he crowns her with his right hand. Cf. It is therefore probable that the elderly master shared a workshop around this time with the rising star of fourteenth-century Venetian painting. The roman numerals CCCXXIIII are painted on the base of the throne, near Jesuss feet. These include one other dated painting: namely, the altar frontal of the Blessed Leone Bembo now at the treasury of the Church of Saint Blase in Vodnjan (Dignano dIstria) in Croatia, painted for the Venetian church of San Sebastiano in 1321. Gamulin 1964). The painting was executed on a two-member, vertically grained poplar panel. Other objects include books, most likely Bibles, a cross, a crown, a huge cathedral like stage that Mary and Jesus sit upon, and possibly a sword. A comparison to a painting by Paolo also in the National Gallery of Art, with more dimensional and less static figures, brings into focus the Coronations more schematic approach. Only three paintings, all chronologically close to the panel dated 1324, are unanimously, or almost unanimously, recognized as his work. Francesca Flores dArcais and Giovanni Gentili (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, 2002), 118; Luciano Bellosi, La pecora di Giotto (Turin, 1985), 147 n.93, 214; Viktor Nikiti Lazarev, Saggi sulla pittura veneziana dei secoli XIIIXIV: La maniera greca e il problema della scuola cretese, Arte veneta 19 (1965): 2426, 31 n.62; Mikls Boskovits, Pittura e miniatura a Milano: Duecento a primo Trecento in La nuova citt dal Comune alla Signoria, ed. rather important commissionto paint the Coronation of the Virgin for the Oddi Chapel in the church of San Francesco, Perugia. The belief in Mary as Queen of Heaven obtained the papal sanction of Pope Pius XII in his encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam (English: 'Queenship of Mary in Heaven') of October 11, 1954.[1][2]. The panel, originally part of a much larger assemblage (see Reconstruction), has been attributed in the past to Paolo Veneziano (Venetian, active 1333 - 1358), Venices most important artist in the 14th century. As regards his possible identification with Martino da Venezia, we can only speak of a working hypothesis suggested by the stylistic affinities between the painting here discussed and those of Paolo, son of Martino, and also bearing in mind the undisputed ascendancy that Paolos bottega rapidly succeeded in winning in early fourteenth-century Venetian painting. Mikls Boskovits (19352011), Master of the Washington Coronation/The Coronation of the Virgin/1324, Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/41702 (accessed March 01, 2023). but it seems to me difficult to doubt their very close stylistic affinity with the group of paintings just cited. The alternation of full-length prophets and half-figure apostles would seem to exclude the alleged provenance of the former Cini collection panel either from a predella or from an iconostasis. . On 9 June 1311, this magnificent work was carried in procession through the streets of . The richly decorated surfaces and extensive use of silver and gold indicate that this panelone of the artist's finest and best preserved worksderives from an important altarpiece, though its early . (Milan, 1992), 2:541542; Mauro Lucco, Paolo Veneziano, in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, ed. Viktorija Markova, Italija: Sobranie ivopisi, vol. Fibonacci Analysis of The Coronation of the Virgin (Louvre) by Fra Angelico - Kindle edition by Gulcugil, Ates. [che] sembra decantarsi in un classicismo ellenistico, mediante una costruzione intensamente plastica della forma. Mauro Lucco, 2 vols. The polyptych normally consists of a central panel with an even number of side-panels, which are sometimes hinged to fold. Among the many lovely aspects of the life of the Virgin, the loveliest is the story of her conception, born of a kiss between the aged Joachim and the long-barren Saint Ann, as they linger by the city gate. Jane Turner, 34 vols. See Raimond van Marle, Michelangelo Muraro, Maestro Paolo da Venezia: Fortuna critica,. The lower portion is split. . Enrico Castelnuovo, 2 vols. See Viktor Nikiti Lazarev, Saggi sulla pittura veneziana dei secoli XIIIXIV: La maniera greca e il problema della scuola cretese, Arte veneta 19 (1965): 2426, 31 n.62; Viktor Nikiti Lazarev, Review of La pittura veneziana del Trecento by R.Pallucchini, The Art Bulletin 48 (1966): 120121. Sergio Bettini (1954) noted their kinship with the mosaic dated 1277 on the ciborium of the Basilica Eufrasiana in Parenzo (Istria), and Italo Furlan (2002) dated them even earlier, to c.1260. According to Alberton Vinco da Sesso, Naya had also amassed a collection of ancient statuary, and it cannot be excluded that the Gallerys painting actually came from the photographers collection. Omissions? From the High Renaissance onwards, the subject is often combined with an Assumption as a group of Apostles is on the earthly space below the heavenly scene, sometimes with Mary's empty tomb. See Gertrude Coor, The Earliest Italian Representation of the Coronation of the Virgin, The Burlington Magazine 99 (1957): 328330. The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the fifth of the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary (following the Assumption, the fourth Glorious Mystery) and therefore the idea that the Virgin Mother of God was physically crowned as Queen of Heaven after her Assumption is a traditional Catholic belief echoed in the Rosary. Sell with Artsy Artist Series Portraits of Artists and Sculptors 113 available Portraits of Artists and Sculptors 113 available New York, 1971, pp. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 2021, and figs. In general the art of this period, often paid for by royalty and the nobility, increasingly regarded the heavenly court as a mirror of earthly ones. Sculpture Garden Carla Travi, Su una recente storia della pittura del Veneto nel Trecento, Arte cristiana 82 (1994):71. 2). Later, God the Father often sits to the left of Christ, with the Holy Spirit hovering between them, and Mary kneeling in front and below them. As the central panel of altarpieces became larger until it abandoned the predella and side-panels, the Coronation was one subject suited to a very tall composition, especially if it had Apostles or other saints of importance to the community depicted on the lower sections. A late thirteenth-century date had already been postulated by Lazarev (1965), the first to compare the San Zan Degol cycle with the Madonna in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Washington Coronation, followed by Boskovits (1989), who included in the masters oeuvre, in addition to the aforesaid works, the panels in Caorle (for which see also note 22 below). The Coronation of the Virgin. ), in Fra Ludovico da Pietralunga and Pietro Scarpellini, Descrizione della Basilica di S. Francesco e di altri Santuari di Assisi (Treviso, 1982), 344; Robert Gibbs, Locchio di Tomaso: Sulla formazione di Tomaso da Modena (Treviso, 1981), 37; Robert Gibbs, A Fresco by Marco or Paolo Veneziano in Treviso, Studi trevisani 1 (1984): 2729, 30 n.7; Robert Gibbs, Tomaso da Modena: Painting in Emilia and the March of Treviso, 13401380 (Cambridge, 1989), 29; Robert Gibbs, Master of the Washington Coronation, in The Dictionary of Art, ed. Two angels hold up a ruby-red cloth behind Mary and Jesus, and the back of the throne curves in a half moon above the cloth. The eight angels are spaced over the throne, and are smaller in scale, about half the size of Mary and Jesus. The two fragments in Forl, left in anonymity by earlier art historians such as Edward B. Garrison (1949) and Giordano Viroli (1980), were attributed to the Master of Caorle by Giovanni Valagussa (1995). Export from an object page includes entry, notes, images, and all menu items except overview and related contents. Paolo Veneziano displays a more spontaneous elegance in the movement of his figures, more fluent linear rhythms in his design, and more delicate passages of chiaroscuro in his modeling. Francesca Flores dArcais and Giovanni Gentili (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, 2002), 142. It was felt that the throne itself must be royal. More likely, however, its painter belonged to the previousgenerationhe may even have been Paolos father, Martino da Venezia. 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