Virgin and Child with Angels (after 1460): Art, History and Details

Virgin and Child with Angels (after 1460) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Neri di Bicci (Italian, 1419–1491).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Neri de Bicci was a prolific painter of mainly religious themes, active principally in Florence as a panel painter. His grandfather, Lorenzo di Bicci was also a painter in Florence. His journals from the years 1453–75, including the rates of payment for his work, are still preserved in the library of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Object facts

• Title: Virgin and Child with Angels
• Date: after 1460
• Creator attribution: Neri di Bicci (Italian, 1419–1491)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Painting
• Technique: tempera on wood
• Dimensions: Framed: 109.8 x 110.2 x 15 cm (43 1/4 x 43 3/8 x 5 7/8 in.); Unframed: 64 x 45.5 cm (25 3/16 x 17 15/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Medieval Art
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1916.798

A detail from the museum

The removal of a thick coat of soiled and discolored varnish in 1943 gave this painting new life.

Collection credit

Holden Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Hollenden Gallery, James Jackson Jarves, and Liberty Emery Holden. Handbook for Visitors to the Hollenden Gallery of Masters: Exhibited at the Boston Foreign Art Exhibition in 1883-4. [Place of publication not identified]: [J.J. Jarves], 1883.
• Berenson, Mary Logan, "Dipinti Italiana in Cleveland," Rassegna d'arte VII, no. I (January 1907).
• Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, Fred. C. Willis, and Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1907.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.