Agnolo degli Erri

Emilian, active 1440s - 1497

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Italian painter (1440-1482)

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A person wearing a black hood and cloak over a white long-sleeved garment stands in a wooden box, a pulpit, and speaks to a crowd gathered below in this vertical painting. The people all have pale skin tinged with green and pink cheeks. The preacher stands along the right side of the painting, his mouth open and both hands held up. He faces our left almost in profile, and his forehead, eyes, and mouth are deeply lined. Seventeen men and women sit or stand across the front of the crowd or at the far side of it. They wear garments in rose pink, fog gray, sapphire blue, vivid red, or black. Five of them sit along a wooden rail or bench closest to us with their backs facing out. Between this and the standing people on the far side of the crowd are dozens of heads, mostly covered with white cloths though a few have blond hair. Buildings in gray, pale pink, or white stone fill the background except for a few patches of sky, which are shiny gold. The torso of a person holding an open book floats high above the crowd, cut off by the top edge of the painting. The person wears a dark blue robe over a pink garment and is surrounded by a ring made of the red wings of winged, blond baby heads with gold halos. Gold rays radiate out from the ring.
Agnolo degli Erri, A Dominican Preaching, c. 1470, tempera on poplar panel, Gift of Frieda Schiff Warburg in memory of her husband, Felix M. Warburg, 1941.5.2

A Dominican Preaching

Agnolo degli Erri · c. 1470 · tempera on poplar panel ·  Accession ID  1941.5.2

Bibliography

1907

  • [V.A.C.] "Agnolo degli Erri." In Thieme-Becker 1907-1950, 11:14.

1925

  • Berenson, Bernard. "Nove itture in cerca di un'attribuzione." Dedalo 5 (1925): 601-642, 688-723, 745-775.

1927

  • Berenson, Bernard. "Nine Pictures in Search of an Attribution." In Three Essays in Method. Oxford, 1927: 1-74.

  • Venturi, Adolfo. Studi dal vero. Milan, 1927: 137-155.

1939

  • Ragghianti, Carlo. "Notizie e letture: Sul problema Erri-D. Morone." Critica d'Arte 4, no. 2, section 19 (1939): I-VIII.

1956

  • Longhi, Roberto. Officina ferrarese (1934), seguíta dagli Ampliamenti (1940) e dai Nuovi ampliamenti (1940-1955). Florence, 1956: 101-102, 169-170, 185.

1988

  • Benati, Daniele. La bottega degli Erri e la pittura del Rinascimento a Modena. Modena, 1988.

2003

  • Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 255.