Praying Prophet

1410/1413

Lorenzo Monaco

Artist, Florentine, c. 1370 - c. 1425

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    miniature on vellum

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 13.1 x 12.9 cm (5 3/16 x 5 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1950.1.8

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    NGA Miniatures 1975, no. 13

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1962

  • The Saints in Prints & Illuminations from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, The Art Gallery of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1962-1963, no. 18.

1965

  • Works of Faith, Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, 1965, no cat.

1975

  • Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1975, no. 13, repro.

1994

  • Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994-1995, no. 38a (incorrectly labelled as 1952.8.277).

2009

  • Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 2009.

Bibliography

1975

  • National Gallery of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1975: no. 13.

2012

  • Hadlington, Simon. "Near-infrared Spectroscopy Illuminates Medieval Art." Chemistry World, 25 April 2012 (on-line publication at http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2012/April/)

Wikidata ID

Q64593361

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