The Nativity with the Annunciation to the Shepherds
c. 1340
Artist, Florentine, active c. 1328 - 1350
Artwork overview
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Medium
miniature on vellum
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 36.5 x 27.1 cm (14 3/8 x 10 11/16 in.)
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Accession
1949.5.87
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Catalogue Raisonné
NGA Miniatures 1975, no. 7
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1950
Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 9, repro.
1953
Mediaeval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, Los Angeles County Museum, 1953, reproduced in catalogue as no. 95, but not in checklist.
1955
Medieval and Renaissance Music Manuscripts, Toledo Museum of Art, OH, 1953, no. 55.
1965
Italian panels & manuscripts from the thirteenth & fourteenth centuries in honor of Richard Offner, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 1965, no. 80., repro.
Notre Dame Art Gallery, Notre Dame, IN, 1965, no cat.
1971
A Selection of X-Xv Century Medieval Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1971, no. 21.
1972
Mediaeval Manuscripts from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Notre Dame, 1972, no. 12.
1975
Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1975, no. 7, repro.
1994
Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994-1995, no. 4c.
2009
Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 2009.
2012
Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance: Painting and Illumination, 1300-1350, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2012 - 2013.
Bibliography
1975
National Gallery of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1975: no. 7.
2012
Robson, Janet. "Florence Before the Black Death." In Florence (Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance) edited by Francis Ames-Lewis. Cambridge, 2012: 64, color pl. 5.
Wikidata ID
Q64608176