Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter

c. 1395-1400

Lorenzo Monaco

Artist, Florentine, c. 1370 - c. 1425

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tempera and gold leaf on vellum

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 34.4 x 31.4 cm (13 9/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
    framed: 75.6 x 60.3 x 3.8 cm (29 3/4 x 23 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1958.8.105

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    NGA Miniatures 1975, no. 11

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Erwin Rosenthal, Berkeley); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA, in 1955; gift to NGA, 1958.

Associated Names

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. 1.

1965

  • Italian panels & manuscripts from the thirteenth & fourteenth centuries in honor of Richard Offner, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 1965, no. 85.

1971

  • A Selection of X-Xv Century Medieval Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1971, no. 26.

1975

  • Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1975, no. 11, repro.

1994

  • Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994-1995, no. 30b.

2006

  • Lorenzo Monaco (1370-1425), Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, 2006, unnumbered catalogue.

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. 11.

1994

  • Kanter, Laurence B., et al. Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994: no. 4a, 4c, 4l, 30b, 38a.

1995

  • Levi D'Ancona, Mirella. I Corali del Monastero di Santa Maria degli Angeli. exh. cat. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, 1995, no. 39 (as Matteo Torelli; incorrectly credited to the Library of Congress).

1999

  • Baroffio, Giacomo, Iter Liturgicum Italicum. Padova (1999): 303

Wikidata ID

Q64593362

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