How to read these abstracts [descriptions] and use
them with the images:
Each image is saved with a file name consisting of [date]-[name of artwork]. The date of the artwork
is at the beginning of each abstract and the name of the artwork is in italics.
The image matching:
1282 – Italy – Arnolfo di Cambio – Thirsty Woman – Marble – Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia, Italy
would have the file name:
1282-ThirstyWoman
All punctuation - [ ]’:,
etc - is left out of file names,
but are included in the abstracts. Thus:
1265-1268 – Italy – Nicola Pisano – The Crucifixion [Detail 2] – Marble – Duomo, Siena, Italy
would have the file name:
1265-1268-TheCrucifixion-Detail2
Accents, tildes, and other special characters are also
not used in file names, thus ‘Pietà’ becomes ‘Pieta’, etc.
Occasionally, more than one artwork of a specific date shared a title, and are
distinguished by [1],[2],etc. However, if one image satisfies the criteria of a
CD and another does not, you may have just [2] on the specific CD you own.
Don’t fret that [1] is not there! This also applies to close-up details of
artworks – sometimes [Detail 3] satisfies the needs of a CD but [Detail 1] and
[Detail 2] didn’t!
All file names are listed according to how the computer
‘alphabetizes’ things. Thus, images with a range of dates [i.e. 1283-1284] come
before those with just one year [1283], and if a date has a ‘c’ [1310-1319c] on
the end [for ‘circa’], it falls in the ‘c’s no matter what the name of the
artwork is.
The information in the abstracts are arranged thusly:
[date of artwork] – [country of artist] – [name of artist] – [name of artwork] – [medium used] – [location of original]
Abbreviations used at the end of dates are: c: ‘circa / about’ [1310-1319c is ‘circa 1310-1319] and ante: ‘before’ [1331ante is ‘before 1331’.]
1178-1300
1178 – Italy –Benedetto
Antelami – Deposition from the Cross
– Marble – Duomo, Florence – Note the two women to each side of the cross
1240-1302 – Italy – Giovanni
Cimabue – Madonna Enthroned with the Child and Two Angels – Tempera on
panel – Galleria delgi Uffizi, Florence
1255-1256 – Italy –Nicola
Pisano – The Presentation in the Temple – Marble – Baptistry, Pisa,
Italy – Mary is to the right, but also notice the prophetess Anna to the left
behind the priest
1260-1270 – Italy –
Bonaventura Berlinghieri– Madonna and Child with Saints and Crucifixion – Tempera
on wood – Galleria delgi Uffizi, Florence – In addition to the Madonna,
there are women in the small scenes around the Crucifixion
1260 – Italy – Nicola Pisano
– Annunciation, Birth of Jesus, and Adoration of the Shepherds – Marble
– Baptistry, Pisa, Italy – Good view of the Madonna’s neckline as she
reclines but also note the two midwives in the front
1261 – Italy – Coppo Di
Marcovaldo – Madonna del Bordone – Tempera on wood – Santa Maria del
Servi, Bologna, Italy
1265-1268 – Italy – Nicola
Pisano – The Crucifixion [Detail 2] – Marble – Duomo, Siena, Italy
1265-1268 – Italy – Nicola
Pisano – The Visitation – Marble – Duomo, Siena, Italy – Also notice
the woman standing in the back on the right
1270 – Italy – Guido Da
Siena – Madonna and Child – Tempera on wood – Palazzo Pubblico, Siena,
Italy – This shows both layers of the Madonna’s dress
1280 – Italy – Duccio Di
Buoninsegna – Madonna and Child – Tempera on wood – Pinacoteca
Nazionale, Bologna, Italy
1282 – Italy – Arnolfo di
Cambio – Thirsty Woman – Marble – Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria,
Perugia, Italy
1283-1284 – Italy – Duccio
di Buoninsegna – Crevole Madonna – Tempera on wood – Museo dell’Opera
del Duomo, Siena, Italy
1290 – Italy – Jacopo
Torriti– The Marriage at Cana – Fresco – Upper Church, San Francesco,
Assisi, Italy – She’s hard to make out, but the bride is in the back wearing
her finery.
1291 – Italy – Pietro
Cavallini– Nativity of the Virgin – Mosaic – Sta Maria in Trastevere,
Rome – Several women here, but especially note the woman on the right
pouring water. She wears a tunic over her shift.
1296-1302 – Italy – Arnolfo
di Cambio – Madonna – Marble – Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence,
Italy – Note the embroidery on the dress sleeves.
1300
1300-1301 – Italy –
Palmerino Di Guido – St. Nicholas Throwing the Gold Bars to Three Poor Girls
– Fresco – Chapel of St. Nicholas, Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi,
Italy – You can see two of the poor girls asleep behind their father on the
left.
1301 – Italy – Giovanni
Pisano– Pulpit: Massacre of the Innocents – Marble – Sant’Andrea,
Pistoia, Italy
1301 – Italy – Giovanni
Pisano– Pulpit: Story of the Birth of Jesus – Marble – Sant’Andrea,
Pistoia, Italy – Note the midwives in the front.
1305 – Italy – Giovanni da
Rimini – Stories from the Life of Christ – Tempera on panel – Galleria
Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Rome – Lots of cloaked women here, but also note
the two midwives in the top left image of the Nativity.
1308-1310 – Italy – Simone
Martini– Madonna of Mercy – Tempera on wood – Pinacoteca Nazionale,
Bologna, Italy
1310-1319c – Italy –
Giovanni Pisano– Madonna with the Child and Two Angels – Marble –
Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua, Italy
1310 – Italy – Giovanni
Pisano– Pulpit [Detail #1] – Marble – Cathedral, Pisa, Italy – The
woman in front is naked, but notice Fortitude [?] – holding the lion – in the
back.
1312-1317 – Italy – Simone
Martini– Miracle of the Resurrected Child – Fresco – Cappella di San Martino, Lower Church, San Francesco,
Assisi, Italy – There is the child’s mother to the right, but behind her
[farther to the right] is another woman.
1317 – Italy – Lippo Memmi– Maestà
– Fresco – Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy – Two female saints or angels to
either side of the Madonna, plus another female saint to the far left by the
old man with a beard.
1317 – Italy – Simone
Martini– St. Clare and St. Elizabeth of Hungary – Fresco – Cappella di
San Martino, Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi, Italy – St. Clare wears the habit of the order
of nuns she founded. St. Elizabeth was a queen and is richly dressed.
1317 – Italy – Simone
Martini– St. Mary Magdalene and St. Catherine of Alexandria – Fresco –
Cappella di San Martino, Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi, Italy
1318 – Italy – Simone
Martini– St. Elizabeth, St. Margaret, and St. Henry of Hungary – Fresco
– Cappella di San Martino, Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi, Italy – Please
note that despite the long hair and youthful face, it is St. Henry on the
right, with the two women center and left.
1320 – Italy – Simone
Martini– Madonna and Child with Angels and the Saviour – Tempera on wood
– Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena, Italy
1321-1325 – Italy – Simone
Martini– Boston Polyptych – Tempera on wood – Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum, Boston
1321 – Italy – Tino Da
Camaino – Charity – Marble – Museo Bardini, Florence, Italy – Not
only is she nursing through slits in the front of her garment, but note the
buttons as well.
1321 – Italy – Tino Da
Camaino – Madonna and Child – Marble – Museo Nazionale del Bargello,
Florence – Nice detail of embroidery on the bodice of her dress.
1324 – Italy – Simone
Martini– Blessed Agostino Novello Altarpiece – Tempera on wood –
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna – They are tiny and hard to see but there are
women in the small pictures around the central panel, except for the top right.
Note especially the women in the bottom right.
1325 – Italy – Lorenzetti,
Ambrogio – Madonna and Child with Mary Magdalene and St. Dorothea –
Wood – Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, Italy
1328-1330 – Italy – Taddeo
Gaddi– Life of the Virgin – Fresco – Cappella Baroncelli, Santa Croce,
Florence, Italy
1328-1330 – Italy – Taddeo
Gaddi– Presentation of Mary in the Temple – Fresco – Cappella
Baroncelli, Santa Croce, Florence, Italy – The virgins of the Temple in the top left are wearing similar dresses
but a variety of colors.
1330c – Italy – Giotto – The
Stefaneschi Triptych – Tempera on panel – Pinacoteca, Vatican – They are
small, but there are three women (and a child) clearly painted in the left
wing, to the left of St. Paul being martyred.
1330 – Italy – Ambrogio
Lorenzetti– Suckling Madonna – Tempera on wood – Palazzo Arcivescovile,
Siena, Italy
1330 – Italy –Pietro Da
Rimini – The Nativity – Wood – Private collection – Again,
midwives in the front, a common element in Nativity scenes.
1332 – Italy – Ambrogio
Lorenzetti– Altarpiece of St. Proculus – Tempera on wood – Galleria
degli Uffizi, Florence
1332 – Italy – Ambrogio
Lorenzetti–Scenes from the Life of St. Nicholas [1] – Tempera on wood –
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence – In the top half are the three poor girls
St. Nicholas is saving by dropping gold through their window.
1332 – Italy – Ambrogio
Lorenzetti–Scenes from the Life of St. Nicholas [2] – Tempera on wood –
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence – There are two women by the bed in the
bottom room of the picture at top.
1333 – Italy – Simone
Martini– Crucifixion – Tempera on wood – Koninklijk Museum voor Schone
Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
1333 – Italy – Simone
Martini– Deposition – Tempera on wood – Koninklijk Museum voor Schone
Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
1333 – Italy – Simone
Martini– Entombment – Tempera on wood – Staatliche Museen, Berlin
1333 – Italy – Simone
Martini– The Carrying of the Cross – Tempera on wood – Museé du Louvre,
Paris – There are several women around the wailing Mary Magdalene (in red)
in the far right of the picture.
1335 – Italy – Bernado
Daddi– Madonna and Child – Oil on panel – Pinacoteca, Rome
1335 – Italy – Ambrogio
Lorenzetti– Maestà [Madonna and Child with Angels and Saints] – Tempera
on wood – Private collection –In addition to the Madonna, note the two
angels standing in the back to the right and left of her throne.
1336-1343 – Andrea Pisano– Santa
Reparata – Marble – Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence
1337-1342 – Italy – Andrea
Pisano– Weaver – Bronze relief – Campanile, Duomo, Florence
1339 – Italy – Paolo
Veneziano– Doge Francesco Dandolo and His Wife Presented to the Madonna
– Panel – Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice
1340-1345 – Italy – Ambrogio
Lorenzetti– Madonna and Child – Panel – Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
1340 – Italy – Paolo
Veneziano– Crucifixion – Tempera on panel – National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C. – Mary’s dress seems to belted high, under her breasts. She
is in deep blue, being caught at she faints on the left.
1340 – Italy – Barna Da
Siena – Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine – Tempera on panel – Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston –Be sure to note St. Catherine beating up on a demon in
the bottom left.
1340 – Italy – Barna Da
Siena – Scenes from the New Testament – Fresco – Collegiata, San
Gimignano, Italy – Mary is wearing an overdress in the Annunciation at top;
there are also some women in the crowd at the left middle.
1341 – Italy – Pietro
Lorenzetti– Beata Umilta Transports Bricks to the Monastery – Oil on
wood – Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
1342 – Italy – Simone
Martini– Christ Returning to His Parents – Tempera on wood – Walker Art
Gallery, Liverpool, England
1342 – Italy – Ambrogio
Lorenzetti– The Presentation in the Temple – Panel – Galleria degli
Uffizi, Florence
1342 – Italy – Pietro
Lorenzetti– The Birth of Mary – Tempera on wood – Museo dell’Opera del
Duomo, Siena, Italy
1346 – Spain – Ferrer Bassa–
Three Women at the Tomb – Fresco – Monastery of Pedralbes, Barcelona,
Spain
1349-1360 – Italy – Nino
Pisano – Madonna and Child – Marble – Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Prato,
Italy
1350 – Italy – Lippo Memmi– Madonna
of the Recommended – Fresco – Chapel of the Corporal, Duomo, Orvieto, Italy
1350 – Italy – Bounamico
Buffalmacco – Triumph of Death [Detail 1] – Fresco – Campo Santo, Pisa,
Italy – She’s a bit hard to see, but the third rider from the left is a
woman. There seems to be another one with a tall hat in the back far right.
1350 – Italy – Bounamico
Buffalmacco – Triumph of Death [Detail 3] – Fresco – Campo Santo, Pisa,
Italy
1356-1392 – Italy – Giovanni
del Biondo– Altarpiece of the Baptist - Tempera on panel – Contini Bonacossi Collection, Florence – There
are a number of women in the little pictures around the main panel; but note especially the women around the bed
in the middle left, the girl [Salome]
entering the room in the middle right, and the lady in red [Herdias] at
the bottom right.
1359 – Italy – Lorenzo
Veneziano – Marriage of St. Catherine – Tempera on panel – Galleria
dell’Accademia, Florence
1360 – Italy – Nino Pisano –
Madonna del Latte – Marble – Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa, Italy
1365-1368 – Italy – Andrea
Da Firenze – Christ Bearing the Cross to Calvary – Fresco – Cappella
Spagnuolo, Santa Maria Novella, Florence – There are women in the crowd
following Christ, but also along the tops of the walls of the city.
1365-1368 – Italy – Andrea
Da Firenze – Crucifixion – Fresco – Cappella Coronado, Santa Maria della
Vitoria, Rome – There are two women at the bottom of the Cross.
1365-1368 – Italy – Andrea
Da Firenze – The Church Militant and Triumphant [Detail 1] – Fresco –
Cappella Spagnuolo, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
1365-1368 – Italy – Andrea
Da Firenze – The Church Militant and Triumphant [Detail 2] – Fresco –
Cappella Spagnuolo, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
1365 – Italy – Giovanni da
Milano – Birth of the Virgin – Fresco – Rinuccini Chapel, Santa Croce,
Florence, Italy – Note the lovely white and red dress of the lady on the
left.
1365 – Italy – Giottino – Pietà
of San Remigio – Tempera on wood – Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence –
Note the donor with a belt being presented by the bishop-saint.
1365 – Italy – Giovanni da
Milano – Scenes from the Life of Magdalene – Fresco – Rinuccini Chapel,
Santa Croce, Florence, Italy – In the middle left scene, Martha wears an
apron over her two colored outfit while complaining to Christ.
1365 – Italy – Giovanni da
Milano – Scenes from the Life of the Virgin – Fresco – Rinuccini Chapel,
Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
1367 – Italy – Niccolo
Semitecolo – Two Christians Before the Judges – Tempera on wood – Sacresty,
Duomo, Florence, Italy –In the bottom right is a pleading woman whose dress
is two layers, blue over red, with the red showing at the wrists and in the
front.
1370-1372 – France – Jean De
Liege - Jeanne d’Évreux and Charles
IV – Marble – Museé du Louvre, Paris
1372 – Italy – Lorenzo
Veneziano – Madonna and Child – Wood – Museé du Louvre, Paris
1376-1378 – Italy – Giusto
de’ Menabuoi – Marriage at Cana – Fresco – Baptistry, Padua, Italy – There are four women seated along
the back next to the Virgin, who is near the center of the painting.
1385 – Italy – Spinello
Aretino – Feast of Herod – Tempera on panel – Museum of Fine Arts,
Budapest, Hungary – Salome’s dress has an interesting diagonal stripe.
1390 – Italy – Giovannino
de’ Grassi– Gothic Letters from a Model Book – Illumination on parchment
– Biblioteca Civica, Bergamo, Italy – The ‘H’ at top left has a woman in
green with a red belt; and in the ‘P’ at bottom left is a woman in blue. Both
are from the back. The figure in the ‘P’ wearing a blue hood over red might
also be a woman.
1390 – Spain – Pedro Serra –
Madonna Latte – Tempera on wood – Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya,
Barcelona – Note the woman in the red dress with ‘angel wing’ sleeves in the
bottom left of the image.
1390 – Spain – Pedro Serra –
Madonna with Angels Playing Music – Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya,
Barcelona
1393-1399 – Netherlands –
Melchior Broederlam– Annunciation and the Visitation – Tempera on wood –
Museé des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France –The Virgin is wrapped in her blue robe,
but you can see Elizabeth’s red dress in the Visitation at the right.
1393-1399 – Netherlands –
Melchior Broederlam– Presentation in the Temple and Flight in to Egypt –
Tempera on wood – Museé des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France – In the Presentation,
a woman in red stands behindMary holding a basket.
1393-1399 – Netherlands –
Melchior Broederlam– The Visitation [Detail 1] – Tempera on wood – Museé
des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
1394-1422 – France – Conrad
von Soest – The Crucifixion – Tempera on wood – Parish Church,
Grandcamp, France – You can see the belt and dress of the woman in the
bottom left corner, next to the Virgin.
1394 – Italy – Niccolo Di
Pietro – Madonna and Child and a Devotee – Tempera on panel – Galleria
dell’Accademia, Florence
1400
1400-1410 – France – Jean
Malouel– Large Round Pietà – Wood – Musée du Louvre, Paris
1400-1446 – Switzerland –
Konrad Witz – St. Catherine Of Alexandria – Oil on panel – Private
collection
1400 – Italy – Gentile da
Fabriano– Coronation of the Virgin with Saints – Tempera on Panel –
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy – The female saint on the bottom left
wears a blue dress.
1400 – Italy – Gentile da
Fabriano– Presentation in the Temple – Wood – Musée du Louvre, Paris – Note
the woman with the dress with elaborate sleeves on the left; contrast that with
the old woman on the right.
1403 – Italy – Michelino Da
Basozzo – Elogium on Giangaleazzo Visconti – Illumination on parchment –
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris – There are a number of women around the
Virgin in the upper illustration.
1403 – Germany – Konrad von
Soest – Nativity – Mixed media – Parish Church, Bad Wildugen, Germany
1406-1407- Italy – Jacopo
della Quercia – Tomb of Ilaria del Carretto – Marble – Duomo, Lucca,
Italy - Note the high neck of her
dress.
1408 – Italy – Jacopo della
Quercia – The Judgement of Solomon – Marble – Palazzo Ducale, Venice
1410 – France – Jean
Malouel– Madonna and Child – Tempera on wood – Musée du Louvre, Paris
1410 – Netherlands – Robert
Campin– St. Veronica – Oil on wood – Städelsches Kunstinstitut,
Frankfurt, Germany
1410 – Italy – Gherardo di
Jacopo Starnina – Thebaid –Tempera on wood – Galleria degli Uffizi,
Florence – The tiny figures in this painting are hard to see, but in middle
back of the painting you can make out two women in red around a small building.
In the back left, there seems to be a woman amongst the rocks wearing white.
All images are
courtesy of the Art Renewal Center [ http://www.artrenewal.org
]. They are licensed for personal use and research purposes only. No part of
this CD may be published in any form electronic or otherwise. Fair use laws
apply for use in papers and projects.
© 2008 – Rebecca
Klingbeil / Tidbits Trinkets